Non-profitmaking organizations

An essential reference work for charity administrators and their professional advisers.

This updated edition of Understanding Social Enterprise comes packed with a wealth of learning features to help students understand the theory and practice within this ever expanding field.

This updated edition of Understanding Social Enterprise comes packed with a wealth of learning features to help students understand the theory and practice within this ever expanding field.

Philanthropy is a booming business, with hundreds of billions of dollars committed to the social sector each year.

Today, social media offers an alternative broadcast and communication medium for nonprofit advocacy organizations.

The social sector is undergoing a major transformation.

In Leading Matters, current Chairman of Alphabet (Google's parent company), former President of Stanford University, and "e;Godfather of Silicon Valley,"e; John L.

Philanthropy is a booming business, with hundreds of billions of dollars committed to the social sector each year.

Tackling Wicked Problems in Complex Ecologies is a call to action, focusing on the role that evaluators can play in addressing social and economic problems.

Innovation and Scaling for Impact forces us to reassess how social sector organizations create value.

We are entering a new era-an era of impact.

The Nonprofit Risk Book guides you through the process of finding, managing and mitigating risks that sap your nonprofit organization's time, finances, and resources.

The Nonprofit Risk Book guides you through the process of finding, managing and mitigating risks that sap your nonprofit organization's time, finances, and resources.

This book addresses a specific subset of nonprofits that are chartered with a single mission: decrease the burden of government.

The highly acclaimed Financial and Strategic Management for Nonprofit Organizations provides an encyclopedic account of all the key financial, legal, and managerial issues facing nonprofit executives.

Practical budget management is at the core of this book.

"e;Rationing Medical Care on the Basis of Age"e; explores this highly topical issue and presents a critical argument on the nature of the possible crisis.

Clinical audit is essential for demonstrating performance for the quality and outcomes framework of the GP Contract.

In every developed country, health care managers, clinicians, purchasers and providers are having to extract greater output from cash-limited resources.

This book demonstrates the utility of healthcare law, policy and professional standards in analysing the ethical issues that arise in the provision of health services.

Used properly jargon can be effective, but used incorrectly it can damage communications, waste time and money, and harm public, patient and staff relations.

This volume, focusing on palliative and terminal care, is part of a survey of health care needs for specific conditions, published on behalf of the Department of Health.

If you are reading this, it is likely that you have accepted, or may be considering responsibility for a relative or friend who has cancer.

Health care needs assessment provides information to plan negotiate and change services for the better and to improve health in other ways.

Many refugees and asylum seekers now in the United Kingdom have trained and worked as doctors nurses midwives and other professionals allied to medicine in the countries from which they have departed.

'When I want to know the real rock-bottom truth about what happens all the time in this doctoring life what happens to us and to the folks who bring us their hearts and worries to be heard that's when I turn every time to the novelists the playwrights the poets the essayists who have given us the sights and sounds the feel of all that goes on minute by minute.

Higher Professional Education for General Practitioners is a practical guide on the best ways to plan educational and vocational training needs throughout professional practice.

The Healing Tradition argues that Western medicine is fundamentally flawed because it fails to provide a healing environment for both individuals and society, and indicates potential ways to correct this through an integration model of medical humanities.

The introduction of the new General Medical Services contract for the payment and reward of general practice and GP practices will inevitably change the way in which primary care is delivered.

People from different cultural backgrounds prefer adhering to their own religious beliefs which could restrict treatment options leading to the detriment of health especially if it involves the health of a disabled child.

The impressive progress of medical science over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries has tended to overshadow the art of caring for the patient and their families.

The NHS is currently in the middle of the biggest information technology project in Western Europe, which will fundamentally change the working practices of all NHS staff over the next five years.

Official publication of Obesity Awareness Week 2006 If only weight didn't matter to young people!

Great and increasing inequities exist between the peoples of the Third World and those of the First.

Vision and Value in Health Information offers a significant challenge: to find a place for health information in the modernization of health services in the UK.

This CD-ROM contains the full text of "e;The Red Book"e; and "e;Making Sense of The Red Book"e;.

Series Editor: Michael Rigby This completely up-to-date resource equips readers with practical tools to understand and apply health economic methods.

Roy Lilley, creator of the best selling Tool Kit series for the NHS, has produced his personal A-Z of management topics.

Housing is an important determinant of health.

The General Practice Jigsaw provides comprehensive and up-to-date information on the future of education training and professional development in general practice and primary care.

The NHS pension scheme is the largest in Europe.

The management function is practice-based primary care and who performs it varies by practice.

As soon as this book first appeared in 1990 it became the standard text for the new generation of practice managers with responsibility for implementing many of the radical changes taking place in general practice.

Managing a dental practice has become increasingly complex in recent years, after changes within both the National Health Service and the private sector.

The proposed abolition of Primary Care Trusts and transfer of their commissioning functions to GP consortia have been greeted with intense excitement by some GPs, and with extreme trepidation by others.

The National Service Framework for mental health aims to provide uniformly good systems so that mental health problems are detected and therefore treated early.

The rise of evidence-based healthcare has put emphasis on finding specific evidence.

Tax planning can lead to considerable efficiencies, but few GPs have been trained as businessmen.