The Sheffield Development Project arose from the thinking behind the 1971 White Paper "Better Services for the Mentally Handicapped", which was a government effort to provide clear leadership and a long-term strategy for the development of services for people with learning difficulties. The Sheffield Development Project has been a major ...
This publication contains four papers presented at the one-day conference - Curriculum development for health studies: a professional foundation for nurse teachers; Towards a climate of creativity: a strategy of innovation in one school of nursing (Bart's); Supporting curriculum change in nursing: trials of an educational facilitator; 8 case studies ...
Prison medicine is a unique branch of medical practice undertaken by a number of doctors who have chosen to work in penal establishments either full-time or part-time. It comprises the provision of a comprehensive medical service within certain legal constraints. The four papers in this document were given at a ...
The aims of this conference were to identify the problems that are particular to those working in terminal care, to find ways of solving them, and to look at the future development of the specialty. Terminal care is distinguished from other medical care by the need to relieve pain that ...
This publication gives guidance on teaching English to catering staff in hospitals. It details reasons why alternative forms of language education are unsuitable, and gives ideas on teaching the different aspects of English the staff will need to know. [SMD}
This paper describes innovatory schemes and progress in bringing children with learning difficulties out of hospital. At the conference, Barnardo's N.W. Division presented information about their professional fostering scheme, followed by Portsmouth and S.E. Hampshire Health Authority's provision of alternative accommodation in the community for mentally handicapped children. A dehospitalisation ...
A service for the elderly mentally ill was started at St Francis' Hospital, Haywards Heath, in 1967. This collection of papers has been published following a grant from the King's Fund. The report gives some account of what has happened since the establishment of the service, the type of services ...
This document gives instructions as to how patient satisfaction surveys may be undertaken, particularly in the psychiatric hospital setting. The aim of the study is to : assist psychiatric hospitals to gain information on the views of their patients, both favourable and on priorities for change, and thus enable the ...
This study day arose from the D.H.S.S. study of the same name published in 1981 and was concerned with the policy implications of the D.H.S.S. document. An overview of the 'Respective Roles' study was given before discussing "models" of geriatric care with their advantages and disadvantages, and opportunities for mutual ...
Community Health Councils have the right to visit hospitals and other health care premises and to comment on what they find. In practice, it can be difficult and time consuming to achieve a worthwhile visit. This booklet is an attempt to suggest some guidelines and good practices which can make ...
These two workshops had a common theme, that of admissions policies as they affect students with disabilities. Participants in the workshops were especially invited, all having a particular interest in college admissions policies. They were mainly college principals; special advisors for students with disabilities in colleges of further education, polytechnics ...
This paper is a collection of reports on several sessions held on specific issues and innovative projects. Topics covered include:- Old age - the age of change ; Waterloo Pensioners' Health Group; pensioners' health courses in Barnet ; collaboration in the care of confusion ; neighbours as a resource ; ...
This conference arose out of the work that the London Community Health Resource has been doing since 1981 with health groups and workers in London who are interested in community development. The conference gave community health projects and initiatives from all over Britain the opportunity to present their work, and ...
One of the aims of the conference was to discuss the issues raised in the King's Fund Project Paper no. 51 ` Advocacy : the UK and American experiences'. This paper is an account of the conference and includes a list of the participants (including contributors to the project paper), ...
This project paper is a sequel to An Ordinary Working Life, and provides detailed accounts of a sample of schemes demonstrating how people with mental handicap, including some with severe handicap, can be integrated into ordinary work settings. It discusses the design of different schemes, with particular reference to job-finding ...
This publication consists of the collated information of a survey undertaken in the autumn of 1985 by the Long Term and Community Care Team at the King's Fund Centre. All NHS district general managers in the UK were contacted, to find out about innovations in services for the elderly during ...
This conference was one of a series of meetings Save the Children held to mark the publication of a report on the health of Traveller mothers and children in East Anglia. The conference was designed to give participants an overview of issues about Travellers' health, their difficulties with the health ...
This document was first published for use within the Mid-Glamorgan Health Authority and later revised for wider use. It aims to offer guidance to staff working in an accident and emergency department, especially for those staffing the department at night when advice may be less readily accessible. Principles of procedure ...
This paper aims to set out principles of good practice for services for people suffering from dementia. It is intended to be used by all those who are involved in operating, planning or monitoring services for these people. It begins by stating some key principles which should underlie the provision ...