The topics discussed in this document are all broadly concerned with management in medicine. They include the need to plan and to evaluate the aims and achievements of the health service, consideration of problems involved, and discussion of some techniques and recent developments.
This pamphlet lists a variety of jobs that volunteers have done in general, psychiatric, geriatric and children's hospitals or departments. Each of the jobs listed is being performed in at least one hospital.
This purpose of this booklet is to illustrate some of the good ideas and practices that have already been introduced, or are being planned, in the provision of services for elderly people in hospital, community and the home. The information was collected in preparation for an exhibition and conference held ...
Part I of this directory contains homes within the four Metropolitan Hospital Regions and the Wessex Region arranged alphabetically according to the name of the town or the village in which the home is situated. Where there is more than Home in a particular town, they are arranged in alphabetical ...
This document is a sequel to the `King's Fund Survey of Industrial Therapy in Psychiatric Hospitals'. It supplements the previous report by describing some of the characteristics of patients attending the industrial units. This information was obtained from a census of those at work in the units during one week ...
Because of the ever increasing difficulty of obtaining and retaining skilled catering staff, particularly in the larger cities and comparatively remote country districts, this report looks at the ways in which better use of the few skilled staff available could be achieved by the introduction of automation and mechanisation of ...
This fourth edition of General Hospital Diets reflects progressive trends in hospital catering. Since publication of the earlier editions which indicated the need for three standards of menu and suggested possible menus for each week of the year, the King's Fund has been encouraging hospitals and helping catering officers to ...
This report looks at different productivity schemes which could be adopted by hospitals to ensure that public expenditure is held in check. Current thinking about training emphasises the fact that little benefit will be gained unless the situation which is desired to change has first been thoroughly analysed. The first ...
This is the first edition of a survey which aims to devise a questionnaire that general hospitals could use to find the views of patients about their stay in hospital. The questions cover five areas of life in hospital: the ward and its equipment; sanitary accommodation; meals; activities; and care ...