This document reports the work of the Hospital Personal Aid Service during 1959. The Service undertook visits, on behalf of hospitals, to elderly people awaiting admission to hospital whose medical condition did not warrant immediate admission to an acute ward.
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 ...
The purpose of this study visit was to note developments in the design and planning of new general hospitals and their equipment, and to assess to what extent these might be incorporated in the detailed planning and equipping of the new Hillingdon Hospital, on which construction is due to begin ...
This is a report of a working party requested by the Catering and DIet Committee of the King's Fund to investigate the state of diet therapy in hospitals and the effect on it of the acute shortage of dietitians.
The object of this booklet is to explain in simple terms what it is that special diets set out to do and to explain the ways and means of providing them. It is hoped that it will prove useful to ward sisters and all concerned with catering in hospitals where ...
This booklet gives recipes for `light diets' for patients in general hospitals and stresses that those responsible for the catering should plan menus for light diets with as much, if not more, care than for full diets.
This document reports the work of the Hospital Personal Aid Service during 1960. The Service undertakes to visit, on behalf of hospitals, elderly people awaiting admission to hospital whose medical condition does not warrant immediate admission to an acute ward although no patient is visited and no action is taken ...
This pamphlet is a prospectus for the staff college which existed in the 1960s to educate ward sisters so that they in turn could teach student and pupil nurses.
This manual suggests subjects for enquiry and observation when hospital visits are being undertaken to gain first hand knowledge of the hospital and its work. The areas of the hospital covered are : inpatients; casualty patients; outpatients; medical records department; elderly people; operating theatres; x-ray and pathological departments; physiotherapy, occupational ...
In 1957/58, the King's Fund conducted an enquiry into the problem of noise control in hospitals, and the results of this enquiry were published in a report in November 1958. In 1960 it was felt that some useful information might be obtained by inviting the fifteen hospitals of the initial ...