20 Apr 2005 - Developing Multi-faith Chaplaincy: For Spirit's Sake

Ever since the inception of the NHS, hospital authorities have attempted to 'provide' for the spiritual needs of patients and staff. Professors Abdul Rashid Gatrad and Aziz Sheikh of the MCB Research and Documentation committee recently published an article on multifaith chaplaincy entitled Developing Multi-faith Chaplaincy: For Spirit's Sake in Archives of Diseases in Childhood, a leading medical journal. It explores whether the spiritual needs of non-Christian patients are being adequately met at the time when most needed; that is, when they are ill in hospital.