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Volunteering in the NHS — the 1998 Edith Kahn Memorial Lecture given by Rabbi Julia Neuberger [at the] House of Commons, 2 March 1998
Author(s)	Julia Neuberger
Corporate Author	King's Fund; Community Service Volunteers - CSV
Publisher	CSV, [London], 1998
Pages	9 pp
Source	CSV, 237 Pentonville Road, London N1 9NJ.
Keywords	Voluntary work [elderly] ; Voluntary workers ; National Health Service ; Hospital services ; Lecture papers.
Annotation	The lecture takes place during CSV Week to commemorate the life of Edith Kahn who worked as National Organiser of CSV's Retired and Senior Volunteer Programme, RSVP. The 1998 lecture speaker believes that the NHS (National Health Service) cannot survive as a universal service, free at the point of use, without many volunteers helping to achieve that end. She outlines their present role in League of Friends activities in hospitals. More radically, she suggests that volunteers could perform other, more taxing roles: providing help to anxious patients; company for the dying; befrienders; spiritual care; childcare support; and mutual support for other volunteers. The NHS should train more volunteers, who can help NHS professionals to provide the best and most comprehensive health service. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-980908242 P
Classmark	GHH: QV: L4: LD: 6MA *
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