This book discusses Supportive Services which makes the work of experts possible, i.e. Hospital Planning and Execution; Medical Informatics and Telemedicine; Consequent to and Refusal of Treatment; Health Manpower Planning’ Computer in the Hospital Administration; Nursing Services and Hospital Administration; Records Management in a Hospital; Bio-Medical Equipment Maintenance Management Programmes; Materials Management with Special Reference to Equipment and Drugs; care of the Instrument and Linen; Containment of Hospital Infection; Nursing Services in a Hospital; Medical Practice and Law; Doctor-Patient Relationship; Public Relations in Hospitals; Patients and Hospital-Relationship; Hospitals and private Sector: Mutual Support: Evaluation of Medical Care Services in Hospitals; Quality Health Care in India; Challenges of Hospital Administration in 21st Century; Doctors and the Consumer Protection Act: Appendix; Index. These supportive services are of great significance to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of hospital services. All the chapters have been written by experts based on their wide readings, personal experience and research. The chapters have been supplemented with constructive suggestions based on facts to improve the functions of hospitals. It is hoped that this book would be of great help to the policy-makers, planners and decision-makers as well as to those interested in hospitals administration for study and research. In his Foreword to this book Padmashree Dr. C.P. Thakur, has beautifully stressed the importance of this book: "To meet the challenge of hospital administration in the new millennium, the editors of this book on the subject have done tremendous work in producing a compendium of the articles written specially for this book, by the top medical experts of the country. I am sure this book will be a useful guide for effective improvements in hospital administration all over the country.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR S.L. Goel
Dr. S.L. Goel, Emeritus Fellow UGC at Panjab University, and an eminent social scientist has been teaching Public Administration and Political Science for over thses decades. He has been a member of University Grants Commission, Govt. of India, New Delhi, Distance Education Council and a member of All India Board of Management under All India Council for Technical Education, Ministry of HRD, New Delhi. His field of specialisation is Public Administration and Management. He has been advisor to Himachal Pradesh and Haryana Health Departments under their USAID Programme. He has written a number of books on Management and Public Administration, foreign students for Doctoral research as well as conducted a large number of training programmes for senior administrators. He has been an elected member of the Senate of P.U., Chandigarh form 1984-88. He is widely traveled in India and Abroad. He was Chairman for UGC IXth Plan Allocation for the Universities in Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh and Co-Chairman for Maharashtra. North-East Universities as well as with some Central Universities. He was Convenor UGC Tth Plan Committee for Jama Milia University, New Delhi, Chitarkoot University, Chitarkoot, Rajasthan University, Jaipur and all Colleges of Delhi University. He was a member of Xth Plan Committee at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi in 2003. As a member of UGC, he was associated with a number of Programmes like Academic Staff associated with a number of Programmes like Academic Staff Colleges, Special Assistance Programme, Autonomous Colleges, where he contributed substantially. He has also published more than thirty books on other areas. He has been a Visiting Professor and a consultanat at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok. He visited USSR under Indo-cultural Exchange Programme. He has also served as Professor of Public Administration at Haryana Institute of Public Administration, Chandigarh and in the capacity directed a number of Executive Development Rogrammes meant for Senior Civil Servants. He visited D.R. of Korea, Japan, Hongkong to study the system of Education. He was in Hungary, Switzerland, France, Italy and U.K. to study the health care system in these countries during the summer of 1999.
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