Volunteers in Hospital

as anticipated. This book could help them reassess the situation, and set a new course. Voluntary Service Organisers must become aware of people's needs, and how these can be linked in particular circumstances to the contributions which willing volunteers can make. This material could also help professional staff to understand the benefits for the patient. How to go about the job of recruiting, selecting and assessing volunteers, ways of helping to support and protect the volunteer and the patient are all well covered in a chapter which indicates the code of practice, and the ethics for volunteers. The planning of schemes for the special needs of the elderly patient, the mentally ill and mentally handicapped are all discussed. In all areas, we must not only look at the inward activity, but the vital need to associate the community with the whole patient, their family and social situation ? not as pseudo-professionals, but as people with something to offer other people. After two months' regular visiting