title: The value of convalescent care.
abstract: The subject of convalescence has disappeared from many modern nursing and medical textbooks. It also seems to have been forgotten by recent NHS reformers and a Government obsessed with 'high-speed surgery to cut hospital stays' (The Times, 1994).
authors.affiliation: Professor of Nursing and Community Health at the University of Central England in Birmingham.
authors.forename: George
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Castledinc