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Record Nr.

UNINA9910806167403321

Titolo

Health care in a changing setting : the UK experience

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, : Elsevier/Excerpta Medica/North-Holland

New York, : American Elsevier, 1976

Amsterdam : , : Elsevier/Excerpta Medica/North-Holland

New York : , : American Elsevier, , 1976

ISBN

9786613694010

9780470720257

0470720255

9781280783623

1280783621

9780470717936

0470717939

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (198 pages)

Collana

Ciba Foundation symposium ; ; 43 (new ser.)

Disciplina

362.1/0941

Soggetti

Medical care - Great Britain

National health services - Great Britain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Health Care in a Changing Setting: the UK experience; Contents; Chairman's introduction; The difficulties of changing; Discussion; The reorganized National Health Service: theory and reality; Discussion; Changing concepts in university health; Discussion; General discussion I: The medical profession, patients and society; Implications of shortening the time spent in hospital; Discussion; The nurse's contribution to care; Discussion; Some quandaries facing the health visitor in these times of change; Discussion; Commitment and concern in the health service; Discussion

The response of the hospital doctor to the health requirements of a changing societyDiscussion; The place of academic research; Discussion; Health education, cancer and postgraduate training; Discussion; Women and their health: is there a conflict?; Discussion;



General discussion II: Themes for discussion emerging from papers and discussions; Biographies of the participants; Index of contributors; Subject index

Sommario/riassunto

The Novartis Foundation Series is a popular collection of the proceedings from Novartis Foundation Symposia, in which groups of leading scientists from a range of topics across biology, chemistry and medicine assembled to present papers and discuss results. The Novartis Foundation, originally known as the Ciba Foundation, is well known to scientists and clinicians around the world.