title: The acute sick versus the chronic sick: the takeover of Fairmile House by the NHS.
abstract: This study investigates the changes the introduction of the National Health Service (NHS) brought to a former workhouse. The take-over by the NHS changed this workhouse from an infirmary mainly caring for the aged and chronic sick to a hospital mostly caring for acutely ill people. As a consequence, nursing at this institution probably lost some of the expertise it possessed in caring for the aged and the chronic sick.
authors.affiliation: The Harbour Hospital, Poole, UK.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Lindner
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D002908:Chronic Disease; D005851:Geriatric Nursing / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006707:Homes for the Aged / Q000266:history*; D006763:Hospitals, Chronic Disease / Q000266:history*; D006801:Humans; D009017:Morbidity; D009732:Nursing Care; D013222:State Medicine / Q000266:history*; D006113:United Kingdom