Ownership and organization of enterprises

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.

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.

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.

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.

Medical partnerships are highly complex legal and financial entities.

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.

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

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

This book focusses on a parallel approach that ensures successful acquisitions are strategic and cultural fits, which meet all synergy goals while at the same time optimizing and growing the current business.

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

This book is based on the findings of a nationwide study, the aim of which was to analyse general practitioners' performance as gatekeepers of the Dutch healthcare system.

Conciliation is the term used in the National Health Service to describe a particular form of dispute resolution that is used in relation to the complaints process.

This title includes Foreword by Sheila Kitzinger, Writer, Researcher, Activist and Honorary Professor, Wolfson School of Health Sciences, Thames Valley University.

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.

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

The NHS pension scheme is the largest in Europe.

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.

Care pathways are being developed throughout the health service to improve the quality and effectiveness of care.

Housing is an important determinant of health.

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

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

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

Information is a key resource to primary health care and is increasingly required in individual practices.

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.

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.

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.

Helping others to learn about caring for people with advanced disease has always been a fundamental part of effective palliative care.

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

'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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

The relationship between poverty and child health has always been assumed but this book demonstrates how the evidence of history and of other societies establishes a causal link.

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.

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

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

Practical budget management is at the core of this book.

We have written this book because the story it tells warrants a wide audience.

'The Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) is a system to financially reward general practices for providing quality care to their patients.

What Makes a Good Health Care System?