Health systems and 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.

In the past 10 years spirituality and spiritual care have been much debated in professional healthcare literature, highlighting the need for a recognised definition of spiritual care to enable appropriate assessment of, and response to, spiritual issues.

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.

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

'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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

This book explores the link between the 'corridors of power' where healthcare policy is made and the hospital, health center or clinic where it is carried out.

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;.

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

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.

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

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

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.

This second edition reviews recent reforms and the likely impact of future developments in management and competition in the NHS.

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

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

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.

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

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

"e;Changing Clinical Care"e; adopts a fresh, nursing and patient-centred approach to systemisation to aid patients and their carers.

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

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 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.

This is a remarkable book.

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

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

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

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

The concepts and terminology of the new General Medical Services Contract can be confusing and daunting.

While the investigations and reports which have followed recent health care scandals in the UK have highlighted the very important issue of addressing organizational culture and the need for more effective leadership at every level, patients and their families have struggled to comprehend how such things can occur in a health service that is suppos

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

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.

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

Good teamwork ensures the close collaboration and coordination between professional groups and across disciplinary boundaries.

Healthcare operations, in hospitals and home healthcare settings, are inundated with complex fuzzy features that impose difficulties in the creation of work schedules.