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This book provides a wide spectrum of readers with comprehensive but easily understandable protocols for the assessment and training of wheelchair skills.

This book reveals and describes the leadership and culture change required to remove waste from healthcare processes and eliminate the root cause of soaring costs, poor quality and safety, and limited access.

Based on the author's years of experience working with Toyota's master teachers and with companies in the midst of great change, this book follows the story established in the Shingo Prize-winning book, Andy & Me: Crisis & Transformation on the Lean Journey.

This innovative book provides a unique perspective on the biomedical and societal implications of personalized medicine and how it will help mitigate the healthcare crisis and rein in ever-growing expenditure.

Twenty-first century healthcare will be defined by better care, smarter spending, and healthier people.

This book is written through the lens of patients, caregivers, healthcare representatives and families, highlighting new models of interaction between providers and patients and what people would like in their healthcae experience.

This book deals with a hospital's struggle to secure and maintain financial stability.

Data integrity is fundamental in a pharmaceutical and medical devices quality system.

This book gives examples from healthcare institutions that are using IT automation and innovation to drive change and provides guidance on the strategic direction of HIT over the next five years.

This book is the 3rd volume in the Resilient Health Care series.

This book unravels the role of Point-of-Care (POC) glucose monitoring as an essential part of diabetes management.

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Primary healthcare premises are increasingly becoming more sophisticated offering health promotion minor surgery and specialist services.

If you can imagine it it will happen.

This text is based on the practical experience of pilot schemes which have identified a variety of opportunities and innovative ideas which others can adopt and develop.

This book is useful for any pharmacists, who need a readily available source of advice.

Using practical examples this book demonstrates how a theoretical model for shared care operates in practice to deliver improved health outcomes within limited resources.

This study examines management systems and their appropriateness to the National Health Service.

The need for a more conscious, focused and proactive approach to the management of health-care organizations has increased substantially.

This volume, focusing on low back pain, is part of a survey of health care needs for specific conditions, published on behalf of the Department of Health.

Based on the authors' experiences of working with a wide variety of retail pharmacies, this book is designed to provide pharmacists with a clear understanding of the nature of marketing, and the ways it can contribute to the effective management of their business.

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

Private medical practice is an attractive option for career development.

Presents information and advice on the extended role of the practice manager for both those with experience and increasing responsibility, and for those new to the primary care team.

The use of home detoxification enables health care workers to avoid episodes of in-patient care, with its inherent high costs and secondary problems of label attachment and possible stigmatization.

First Published in 2018.

Health promotion is an integral part of the development of primary care and its emphasis in involving the community in local strategies and planning.

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

Explains the NHS as a political environment, and concentrates on understanding the relationships of power rather than on the role of apparent authority.

Practical and evidence-based, this unique book is the first comprehensive text focused on person-centered approaches to people with serious mental illness such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.

First Published in 2018.

Comprehensive, concise and easily accessible, this is the first health economics dictionary of its kind and is an essential reference tool for everyone involved, or interested in, healthcare.

The recent shifts in power, resources, influence and responsibility in primary care has increased the strain on general practice.

In this introductory text, the author presents the law relating to child care and the reforms introduced by the Children Act 1989, assessing its impact on child care practice and procedures.

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

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

Widespread recognition of the benefits of minimally invasive procedures in surgery and medicine is resulting in the rapid development of new advances and new techniques in every speciality.

A practical guide which aims to provide immediate help in decision-making.

The NHS pension scheme is the largest in Europe.

Immunisation is one of the few preventive interventions of undoubted and proven effectiveness.

This concise but comprehensive text provides those new to palliative care with an overview of the many aspects of their work.

Fifty years ago medicine was straightforward.

How can the quality of service provision and clinical governance in primary care be assessed?

'This book provides the background and practical guidance for all those of us who face challenges for the way we handle medical records.

Organizations around the world are using Lean to redesign care and improve processes in a way that achieves and sustains meaningful results for patients, staff, physicians, and health systems.

Both the demographics and lack of resources in the health and well-being industry are increasingly forcing us to find alternative solutions for individualized health and social care.

You likely don't need any more tools, programs, or workshops to improve your hospital.

The evidence is undeniable.

With more people living longer lives, there is increased importance in the health care industry on improving services for the elderly.

The NHS and independent healthcare sectors increasingly depend on the contributions of the migrant workforce to make up for serious shortfalls in staff numbers.