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Time: 8 hours
Level: Introductory
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 Introduction Resource- This unit considers the type of care offered in hospitals, using Leeds General Hospital as a case study. The unit looks at the people who have roles within the hospital, how they interact with each other...
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| | An introduction to the hospital
- Leeds General Infirmary Resource
- To explore care in the setting of an acute hospital, I visited Leeds General Infirmary (LGI) in the winter of 1996. The hospital provides a service of medical and surgical care for local people and, because...
- The formation of NHS trusts Resource
- Under the NHS and Community Care Act 1990, health care providers in the hospital and community sectors could for the first time bid to become self-governing trusts. Trusts are in principle free to develop...
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| | A day in the life of a hospital ward
- A day in the life of a hospital ward Resource
- In 1996, we visited Ward 29, one of two gastroenterology wards in the medical unit, and recorded the views of patients and staff. The ward has 24 beds. Its patients were women and men, across a wide age...
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| | 2 Working together for health in hospital
- 2.1 Doctors: the ‘Great-I-Am’ Resource
- We pin a lot of hopes on doctors. We expect them to know all that is relevant about the classification and treatment of diseases. We expect them to be able to make us better, and to give us an indication...
- 2.2 Qualified nurses: working in the shadow of medicine? Resource
- Dave, the senior registrar at Leeds General, made a strong statement about nurses on the audio clip:
- 2.3 More carers: still deeper in the shadows? Resource
- What can be said of the others who work on hospital wards? There are, as you heard on the audio cassette, care assistants, there are domestic staff, and sometimes too there are nursing auxiliaries and...
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