Cottage Hospitals

Unoccupied Beds in Cottage Hospitals

Cottage Hospitals?that the Cottage Hospital idea may have been rather overdone because of the steady falling off in the number of occupied beds, and that in England and Wales, excluding London, they had 1,839 beds vacant throughout the whole of last year. No one appreciates more than myself the value of Sir Napier Burnett's report, but I regret that he has lent the weight of his great authority...

The Magic Cottage:

This paper presents an exploratory study that investigates the impact of using a Virtual Reality Environment (VRE) on enhancing creativity in imaginative writing at primary school level. The intervention was to present the pupils with an interactive 3D environment, using Virtual Reality (VR) technology, that provided the setting in which their stories could take place. Numerous interactive feat...

Change and continuity in the cottage hospitals c. 1859-1948: the experience in East Anglia.

In studies of health care provision prior to the establishment of the NHS the development and contribution of cottage hospitals has been neglected. Because they largely emulated the voluntary general hospitals erected in most major towns by the mid nineteenth century, cottage hospitals have been seen as providers of a basic service in the smaller towns and rural areas, or as "auxiliary hospital...

Talk of cottage hospitals and moving more care to the community is absurd.

The First Cottage Hospital