scholarly journals A state of insubordination and mutiny

1990 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
pp. 302-305
Author(s):  
A. D. M. Douglas ◽  
E. G. Oram

A strike involving nursing staff prior to the 1948 National Health Service Act was almost an unheard of event. In 1922 nurses at Saxondale, an 800 bedded mental hospital at Radcliffe-on-Trent near Nottingham, staged what was termed a “sit in strike” lasting four days for refusing to work a 66 hour week and accept a wage reduction as ordered by the employing authority.

1965 ◽  
Vol 111 (470) ◽  
pp. 10-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil Kessel ◽  
Christine Hassall ◽  
Robert Blair ◽  
John M. Gilroy ◽  
Francis Pilkington ◽  
...  

Out-patient services in Britain for psychiatric patients have expanded enormously under the National Health Service. Well over half a million patients are seen at clinics annually. Concomitant with this increase the out-patient department has changed in function. No longer is it principally concerned with providing follow up and support for discharged mental hospital in-patients; instead, because of the greatly increased demand for psychiatric care for less severe disorders and under the influence of the movement for community care it now should play a part not at all subservient to the in-patient department. The clinic, properly run, should be an arena of treatment in its own right.


1974 ◽  
Vol 125 (586) ◽  
pp. 303-309 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Barraclough ◽  
Godfrey Wace

Postgraduate teaching in psychiatry has always been a function of the provincial mental hospitals, but nothing before has equalled the expansion of theoretical teaching which has taken place over the past ten years. At the heart of the training of a psychiatrist, however, there is the National Health Service job with its own demands, where the practical clinical skills are acquired. The job has not changed much, even though the arrangements for theoretical instruction have improved. Yet changes may be possible which will make the registrar's job more efficient as an educational experience by removing the unsystematic and random elements.


2021 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 140-168
Author(s):  
Catherine Babikian

AbstractNurses and their labor are essential to the provision of health care. Nowhere was this more apparent than in the flagship institution of postwar British welfare, the National Health Service. When it launched in 1948, a shortage of thirty-five thousand nurses endangered its future. This article examines the National Health Service's nursing shortage and its most enduring solution: the recruitment of Caribbean and African nursing staff for struggling British hospitals. It follows the manner in which British civil servants, hospital administrators, and nursing leaders came to recruit nurses from the colonies and the deep ambivalence that marked their project. What began as a reformulated colonial development project gave rise to a sprawling and unregulated market for nursing labor that powered the National Health Service for decades. The so-called dark stranger, deemed unworthy of membership in the national community, in fact carried out its most intimate work—caring for the bodies of sick white citizens.


2017 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-18
Author(s):  
Leslie Bartlet

The recollections of a retired psychiatrist concerning his time as a house doctor in a 1952 Scottish mental hospital. These pertain to early days of the National Health Service. He describes the routines and practices of those times, and he refers to some of his reactions to his experiences.


Pflege ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 23 (6) ◽  
pp. 417-423
Author(s):  
Elke Keinath

Im Artikel werden persönliche Erfahrungen als Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP) in der Thoraxchirurgie im National Health Service (NHS) in Großbritannien geschildert. Die tägliche Routine wurde von sieben Kompetenzdomänen bestimmt, nämlich: Management des Gesundheits- und Krankheitszustandes des Patienten, Beziehungen zwischen Pflegeperson und Patient, Lehren und Unterrichten, professionelle Rolle, Leitung und Führung innerhalb der Patientenversorgung, Qualitätsmanagement sowie kulturelle und spirituelle Kompetenzen. Diese Elemente wurden durch die Zusatzqualifikation, selbstständig Medikamente verschreiben und verordnen zu dürfen, erweitert, was dazu beitrug, eine nahtlose Erbringung von Pflege- und Serviceleistungen zu gewähren. Die Position wurde zur zentralen Anlaufstelle im multi-professionellen Team und stellte eine kontinuierliche Weiterführung der Pflege von Patienten und ihren Familien sicher – auch über Krankenhausgrenzen hinweg.


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