This report describes a two year study of the introduction of primary nursing in one of three matched elderly care wards in Mid Staffordshire health authority in order to improve the quality of care given to each patient and patient-staff relationships.
The imbalance in London between primary health care and hospital services has long been recognised. Attempts are now being made to address this issue by strengthening community-based services. This paper quantifies the nature of the challenge facing primary health care in the capital relative to the rest of the country. ...
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 ...