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01 November 2006

Learning Disability Practice

A&S Science

About 120,000 people in Scotland have learning disabilities; around a quarter of whom are aged under 16 years, while another quarter have complex needs. Scotland...

Adolescent facilities: the potential…

01 September 2003

Paediatric Nursing

Service provision

There has been recent debate about whether adolescents should be admitted to a separate adolescent unit, a general paediatric ward with separate bays for...

The first children’s hospital in Wales

01 August 2004

Paediatric Nursing

Service provision

Wales is the only country in Europe without a children’s hospital. This is about to change. In spring, 2003, work began on site of the University Hospital Wales,...

Adolescent facilities: a parent’s view…

01 September 2003

Paediatric Nursing

Service provision

Young people between the ages of 12 and 20 fall into a difficult category in healthcare terms: they are old enough to have a full say in their care, they need to...

Obtaining adolescents’ views about inpatient facilities using conjoint analysis

11 March 2009

Paediatric Nursing

A&S Science

Aim: To determine if conjoint analysis is a suitable tool to use with the adolescent population to determine what factors adolescents consider important in inpatient...

More than fit for purpose: mental health buildings for the future

01 April 2005

Mental Health Practice

General

There are 132 major building developments underway in the NHS, making this the biggest ever building programme. However, this opportunity for new hospitals and...

Teenagers in hospital: what do they want?

24 February 1999

Nursing Standard

Art & science research

Experience with hospital units for adolescents indicates that the benefits can be substantial (Fisher 1994), in meeting developmental (Battle et al 1989, Denholm...

Anticipating the decline of the large general hospital

13 September 2000

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

Changing attitudes to healthcare provision look set to prompt a move away from treating patients in large general hospitals. Hospitals would then be left to deal...

‘Getting the Right Start’: The Children’s National Service Framework

01 May 2003

Paediatric Nursing

General

In July 2001, the Secretary of State for health in England responded to the Bristol Royal Infirmary Inquiry by announcing that national level standards related to...