1: Introducing Jim and Marianne Learning outcomes After studying this unit you should be able to: appreciate key moral dilemmas about apportioning limited resources; demonstrate an understanding of how heavy drug users test the limits of community services. Learning outcomes By the time you have completed this unit you should be able to: Relate beliefs about death to the meaning people attach to life; Reflect upon the way in which death structures life; Critically evaluate new encounters with death affect perspectives upon life; Assess the quality of dying; Critically examine the notion of a ‘good death’ in relation to individual experience; Recognise the implications of 1.2 The formation of NHS trusts 1.1 Leeds General Infirmary To explore care in the setting of an acute hospital, I visited Leeds General Infirmary (LGI) in the winter of 1996. The hospital provides a service of medical and surgical care for local people and, because it is a specialist teaching hospital with a medical school attached, patients are referred from all over the region for specialist advice, treatment and care. The hospital occupies a bewilderingly large, sprawling site in the centre of Leeds. It is a mix of the old and the new, and at the 1.6.4 Difficult communications Audio: click below to listen further to Dev's visit to the Durrant's home.