BRISTOL GENERAL HOSPITAL.

Susan Britton Wills Unit, Bristol General Hospital, Multidisciplinary, General Hospital and Community Psychiatry

The Susan Britton Wills Unit at the Bristol General Hospital is a small and busy multidisciplinary psychiatric unit, providing a wide range of in-patient, out-patient and day-patient services for the residents of Bristol Health District.

William Michell Clarke, M.R.C.S., L.S.A., Consulting Surgeon to the Bristol General Hospital

The Bristol Eye Hospital—An Historical Perspective

eases so prevalent amongst the poor, notably the infectious disease of Egyptian Ophthalmia (Trachoma) and Smallpox. Considerable anxiety was expressed in the early years of the hospital about the incidence of Smallpox and the failure of the poor in the City to have adequate vaccination in spite of its proven efficacy. In the first half of the nineteenth century smallpox was a major cause of bli...

Audits of antibiotic prescribing in a Bristol hospital.

Audits of antibiotic prescribing were done for periods of up to eight weeks in two successive years on medical, surgical, orthopaedic, gynaecology, obstetric, and urology wards and in an accident and emergency department. Clinical details were matched with antibiotic prescribing, and the appropriateness of the latter was judged independently by two medical microbiologists. Only when they agreed...

Undergraduate General Practice Teaching in the University of Bristol

Teachers in General Practice until the final year of the undergraduate curriculum.1,2 For these reasons it is worthwhile to review the present teaching arrangements and to examine whether or not there is any evidence that University of Bristol students are at a disadvantage in their learning opportunities. Since 1971, the General Practice teaching has taken place during a 9-week 'Medicine in the