Britain's Health Services
1942-10 1942 1940s 40 pages ground, the presence of under-nutrition (whether due to poverty or ignorance), and the social needs of the patient. Hospital staffs must realise their responsibility for ensuring that patients and their relatives are not kept away from work longer than necessary. Joint C...
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ground, the presence of under-nutrition (whether due to poverty or ignorance), and the social needs of the patient. Hospital staffs must realise their responsibility for ensuring that patients and their relatives are not kept away from work longer than necessary. Joint Consultative Committees must be continually alive to all aspects of this problem, such as the provision of evening clinics for workers on day shifts, allowing workers special facilities for visiting relatives in hospital after working hours, and so on. The Committees will ensure better use of staff in every department of the hospital, as demonstrated in the following instances:— Example Much unessential work can be cut out. Work of dining room maids obviated by institution of cafeteria system. Staff may be released from certain duties. In many hospitals night telephone calls could be properly received without the employment of a full-time night telephonist. The adoption of devices and time-saving technique will often obviate replacement of staff called up for military service. Much of the time spent by porters, etc., accompanying patients from one department to another can be eliminated by use of well prepared directional signs, e.g. "Follow the green light for Massage Department." Man-hours wasted can be saved. Operating Theatre attendants during long cases could be put on other work subject to immediate recall by a bell system. The above are only a few examples out of many which will occur readily to the minds of all workers, illustrative of the things that can be done by the application of intelligent planning to hospital work. There has been much talk of the Regionalisation of hospital services, by which is usually meant the setting-up and the proper co-ordination of hospital work within new administrative areas of local government. It is hard to see how this desirable reform may be accomplished at any early date, but there seems to be absolutely no reason why in most localities administrators of 14
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| geographic | UK |
| id | HEA-976_71f4508c9f884c87a837aa3d3cf1dddc |
| institution | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
| is_hierarchy_title | Britain's Health Services |
| language | English English |
| physical | TEXT |
| publishDate | October 1942 |
| publisher | London : Communist Party of Great Britain |
| spellingShingle | Maitland Sara Hallinan Pamphlets: Communist Party of Great Britain Health care Public health--Great Britain--History--20th century Britain's Health Services |
| title | Britain's Health Services |
| topic | Maitland Sara Hallinan Pamphlets: Communist Party of Great Britain Health care Public health--Great Britain--History--20th century |
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