Medical study and revision guides and reference material

The quality of cancer and palliative care is going through unprecedented change and development as a result of policy initiatives.

So what's so special about doctors and their families?

Patient and public involvement in health and social care has become a key element of government policy, and the need to listen and act on the views of patients and the public is an increasingly integral part of the planning and delivery of healthcare.

Coaching for Effective Learning adopts a practical, how-to-do-it approach based on the real-life training experience of the authors.

A guide to clinical effectiveness and governance, this second edition includes clinical governance issues.

In a unique approach this book links policy theory and research with the expertise of service providers and users to explore the major debates concerning the provision of mental health services.

Evidence-based medicine draws on terminology used in biostatistics epidemiology health economics philosophy ethics logic and the social sciences.

This book combines models, theory and practical advice that guides clinicians, managers and facilitators to lead integrated primary health care.

Recent changes to the health service including new structures and ways of working at both local and national levels are having major influences on the working lives of every health visitor and community nurse and on their professional opportunities.

This stimulating series is unique in providing advice on management, leadership and development for those in the Allied Health Professions (AHP).

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

The daily work of General Practitioners can seem at once simple and immensely complicated.

This best-selling classic has now been fully revised, expanded and updated.

Life After Darkness is the remarkable and moving story of a doctor and mother of four who endured seven years of severe depression.

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.

Gone are the days when you present to colleagues with hand-drawn overheads.

Medical Tourism and Wellness: Hospitality Bridging Healthcare (H2H) takes a systems approach to examining the growing field of medical tourism, one of the field's hottest niches, with billions of dollars spent each year.

A peek into the literature on the environmental health implications of the rapidly developing nanotechnology industry shows that the potential problem of exposure to airborne nanoparticles has not been adequately addressed.

This textbook introduces the general points of view of research methodology in the scientific and engineering fields of studies and presents an overview of the technical and professional communication needed for article publication in journals.

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.

This unique and practical book provides a clear introduction to clinical supervision and support in primary 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.

Series Editors: Moira Stewart, Judith Belle Brown and Thomas R Freeman The application of the patient-centered clinical method has received international recognition.

Jewish patients customarily have particular ways of approaching health and healthcare.

This is a wonderful collection of stories about doctors and patients, including many by world-famous authors who were also physicians, such as Oliver Sacks, Anton Chekhov and Arthur Conan Doyle.

This extraordinary and practical book examines neuro linguistic programming (NLP) - the knowledge and skills to detect and affect thinking patterns - and applies it to each phase of the medical consultation.

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

This unique and controversial book puts professional practice in the spotlight.

'Across Canada efforts have been made to introduce information technology solutions into the health care sector for the past two decades.

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.

Specialists drawn from industry, agency and academia explain the role of the various elements in the marketing communications process, and show how a reassessment of the marketing mix can result in a positive response to challenges imposed by a changing commercial environment.

Organisational Development in Healthcare introduces the practical ways in which change in health services can be promoted.

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 book explores the controversial dilemmas which meet at the intersection of medicine philosphy and law - questions concerning killing and not killing which are faced daily in health care.

'Medical technology is beneficial for well researched dangerous diseases.

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.

These practical books written by members of the British Association of Medical Managers (BAMM) help clinical directors tackle their role as medical managers.

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 fundholding concept is now an established component of the NHS and is responsible for the growing influence of general practice in the delivery of health care.

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.

'Medicine and Literature' is the doctor's guide to the classics.

All registered nurses are required to keep portfolios which demonstrate their competence in clinical practice in order to receive re-registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council.

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.

Here is a selection of multiple choice questions and care studies designed for candidates for the Diploma of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (DRCOG).

Do you want to be a part of a service that puts service users' needs first?

This work includes forewords by Sir Liam Donaldson and Peter Wheeler, Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health; Dean, College of Fine Arts, University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.

This work includes Foreword by Nigel Sykes, Medical Director, St Christopher's Hospice, London.

Law touches more and more upon the daily practice of medical professionals.

The book provides a critical exploration of the theory and practice related to teacher preparation for interprofessional learning.