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| Part I : The Dignity on the Ward manual (background information) Part II: The care of older people in NHS Hospital Trusts | | Author(s) | Simon Festing |
| Corporate Author | Help the Aged |
| Publisher | Help the Aged, London, 1999 |
| Pages | 16 pp (Dignity on the ward campaign) |
| Source | Help the Aged, St James's Walk, Clerkenwell Green, London EC1R 0BE. |
| Keywords | Hospital services ; Patients ; Medical care ; Management [care] ; Help the Aged. |
| Annotation | Following media reports about the poor care of some older people in hospital, Help the Aged's response has been to set up the "Dignity on the Ward" campaign to improve their quality of life. The main objectives are to: ensure that the Government acts to improve the care of older people in hospital; to see that managers run their hospitals to the kind of standards older people expect; to promote good practice in the care of older people on the ward by NHS staff; and to enable older people to improve their situation if they run into problems in hospital. This information pack is intended as advice for anyone who wants to improve the care of older people in hospital. The manual gives background information on how hospitals and the NHS are organised and specific ideas on how to influence your local hospital. The second part outlines the current problems with the care of older people within NHS hospital trusts. (KJ). |
| Accession Number | CPA-030630202 P |
| Classmark | LD: LF: LK: QA: PYH |
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| ...from the Ageinfo database published by Centre for Policy on Ageing. |
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