This study examines the changes in nursing care of elderly patients that have taken place since the early 1980s in the former geriatric unit which is now the Tameside nursing development unit. This NDU was one of the first to be established in Britain. In 1990 the Department of Health ...
It is widely believed that homeless people place considerable demands on emergency hospital services, but quantifying this in a systematic way has proved difficult. The primary purpose of this paper is to develop a better empirical understanding of the nature and extent of unplanned admissions to acute hospitals in London ...