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Report of the Committee of Enquiry into Mental Handicap Nursing and Care
— Vol.2: OPCS survey of nurses and residential care staff; presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for Social Services ... | | Author(s) | Paul Wilson; Peggy Jay |
| Corporate Author | Office of Population Censuses and Surveys - OPCS; Committee of Enquiry into Mental Handicap Nursing and Care, Department of Health and Social Security - DHSS |
| Publisher | HMSO, London, 1979 |
| Pages | 167 pp + appendices (Cmnd 7468-II) |
| Keywords | Cognitive impairment ; Nursing ; Nurses ; Care home staff ; Social surveys ; Government publications. |
| Annotation | This volume presents the OPCS (Office of Population Censuses and Surveys) report of their survey which was commissioned by the Committee of Enquiry into Mental Handicap Nursing and Care (Jay Committee). The survey's purpose was to provide information from a representative sample of nursing and hostel staff on the roles, training and career structure. 967 nurses from 56 hospitals for the mentally handicapped, and 390 staff from local authority hostels were interviewed. A principal objective was to find out what emphasis staff placed on the social aspects of caring, in developing their residents' individual abilities to enable them to live as independently as possible. The survey also includes information on: staff characteristics; the wards and hostels and their residents; the work carried out by the nursing and care staff; how wards and hostels were run; and contact with staff in other professions and influence over decisions on individual residents. Appendices include the sample design and questionnaires. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980702001 B |
| Classmark | E4: LQ: QTE: QRM: 3F: 6OA |
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