This publication contains reports on a series of five conferences held at the King's Fund Centre between September 1972 and January 1973 on the subject of psychogeriatric services. The reports are entitled: 1) planning services for the elderly; 2) priorities for psychogeriatric care; 3) organisation of psychogeriatric care; 4) care ...
This report looks at the benefits of introducing a washing machine into a hospital kitchen. Pots and pans were cleaner with a lower bacteria count, so the benefits derived were considered well worth the expense involved.
The management of the Royal Masonic Hospital requested the King's Fund to advise on the renewal of equipment for their kitchen. The Fund agreed to advise on: the staff establishment; buying; layout of kitchen and dining room; equipment, stating approximate life and usefulness; and systems which may show financial savings. ...
This is a report proposing how a frozen meals service could be provided at one particular hospital site. The report gives basic data about the hospital, followed by suggested organisation of the catering department, standard of feeding, equipment, staff hierarchy and staffing requirements, depot kitchens, floor finishing kitchens, staff restaurants ...
This book is about two themes. The first is the improvement of the co-ordination of services to people with learning difficulties. The second is a description of how the first theme was pursued, by methods of study and discussion characterised, as far as possible, by the direct, active and personal ...
This report attempts to correlate therapeutic principles of the treatment of alcoholism with the planning and design of new facilities. Two existing treatment facilities are looked at in depth, Warlingham Park Hospital, Surrey and Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Scotland.
The present study was designed to assess the nutritional status of the housebound and to compare their dietary intakes with those of more active old people. For this comparison the results of two surveys were available: elderly people on the list of a large group practice in the London borough ...
The main study was carried out in 18 smaller hospitals in West Cornwall without pharmacists. The objectives were: introduction of an improved design of prescription sheets for acute and long-stay hospitals; production of a procedural booklet on the prescribing, administration and distribution of drugs for medical, nursing and pharmaceutical staff; ...