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Quality Assurance - A Pathway to Excellence
ISBN: 9780333749920 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the 1997 White Paper 'The New NHS, Modern, Dependable' the Government set out its plans for a new NHS with quality at its heart (a vision shared by many health professionals).
This book explores the application of the various approaches to quality assurance. The development of the subject, from its early days to the latest initiatives including guidelines, integrated care pathways and the new clinical governance instrument 'Probe', is explored as is its relevance to the pursuit of excellence. In the 1997 White Paper 'The New NHS, Modern, Dependable' the Government set out its plans for a new NHS with quality at its heart (a vision shared by...
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The Doctors' Tale - Professionalism and Public Trust
ISBN: 9781857759778 / Angielski / Miękka / 247 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sir Donald Irvine asks what further changes have to be made to the culture and regulation of medicine to make it as trustworthy as the public today expects. As President of the General Medical Council between 1995 and 2002, Sir Donald helped shape the changes that followed disasters like the deaths of babies at Bristol and the murders of Dr Harold Shipman. In this frenetic period a new ethos of professionalism emerged, embodying the concept of the autonomous patient and more robust, transparent professional regulation founded on a partnership between the public and doctors. Sir Donald... Sir Donald Irvine asks what further changes have to be made to the culture and regulation of medicine to make it as trustworthy as the public today... |
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Developing New Clinical Roles: A Guide for Health Professionals
ISBN: 9780443070716 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Throughout the health care system, the traditional boundaries between professional groups are becoming increasingly blurred in response to local service needs and national policy objectives. New clinical roles are developing and nurses and other health professionals are finding opportunities to review and reconfigure their roles in response to changing health care needs and national policy imperatives. This book combines a comprehensive and thought provoking overview of the key issues and emerging challenges with practical suggestions for promoting appropriate and sustainable role...
Throughout the health care system, the traditional boundaries between professional groups are becoming increasingly blurred in response to local servi...
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How To Survive Peer Review
ISBN: 9780727916860 / Angielski / Miękka / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How to Survive Peer Review is a practical handbook designed to help anybody who wants to get their work published in a scientific journal, wants to apply for research funds or who has to undergo formal appraisals at work. It will also help people who have been asked to review articles, abstracts or grant applications. These activities are an essential part of scientific life, yet they virtually never get covered in professional training. It is often difficult even to get any helpful information about the processes from journals, meetings or funders. For the first time, this book brings...
How to Survive Peer Review is a practical handbook designed to help anybody who wants to get their work published in a scientific journal, want...
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The Business Planning Tool Kit: A Workbook for the Primary Care Team
ISBN: 9781857755008 / Angielski / Miękka / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Although all primary care organisations have to develop business plans at every level for many this is a new experience. This book will show the reader how. The Business Planning Tool Kit is a practical comprehensive book that contains all the reader needs to know about business planning in primary care. The book includes topics on what to include in a business plan personnel finances premises and information management. It is an interactive guide including links to websites that have practical templates for the reader to download and use. It takes general practitioners practice...
Although all primary care organisations have to develop business plans at every level for many this is a new experience. This book will show the reade...
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848,38 |
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Ethnicity and Nursing Practice
ISBN: 9780333753316 / Angielski / Miękka / 291 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Today, more than ever, it is imperative that nurses are prepared to practice in a multi-ethnic society. This book aims to assist the profession's clear desire to ensure that its members are equipped to meet the health care needs of minority ethnic communities by offering perspectives and insights from sociological theory and empirical research. It also addresses educational issues and considers the careers of nurses from minority ethnic groups.
Today, more than ever, it is imperative that nurses are prepared to practice in a multi-ethnic society. This book aims to assist the profession's clea...
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198,96 |
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Developing Care Pathways: The Handbook
ISBN: 9781857754995 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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. The practical implications in health and social policy are presented in the context of child care services, together with some innovative approaches to future development. This is a book for professionals in medicine, nursing and the social services who are involved in research and the practical issues of delivering a modern health care service to disadvantaged children.
The relationship between poverty and child health has always been assumed but this book demonstrates how the evidence of history and of other societie...
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145,38 |
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Head Injury: A Practical Guide
ISBN: 9780863884511 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Now updated with the latest information on caring for someone with a head injury, this text provides professionals, families and carers with a practical, down-to-earth guide to the hidden psychological, social, behavioural and emotional problems caused by head injury.
Now updated with the latest information on caring for someone with a head injury, this text provides professionals, families and carers with a practic...
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169,63 |
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College Students: Mental Health & Coping Strategies
ISBN: 9781594548383 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. College students are subject to a massive input of stresses which require successful and ever-changing coping strategies. Unsuccessful coping often results in anxiety, heavy drinking, depression and a host of other mental health problems. This book present
College students are subject to a massive input of stresses which require successful and ever-changing coping strategies. Unsuccessful coping often re...
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816,43 |
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The Sociology of the Health Service
ISBN: 9780415031592 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Sociology of the Health Service responds directly to the need to develop a sociological analysis of current health policy. Topics covered vary from privatisation and health service management to health education and the politics of professional power. Also included is an histroical review of sociology's contributions to health policy and proposals for an agenda for sociological health policy research in the 1990s.
The Sociology of the Health Service responds directly to the need to develop a sociological analysis of current health policy. Topics covered...
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A Once Charitable Enterprise: Hospitals and Health Care in Brooklyn and New York 1885-1915
ISBN: 9780521242172 / Angielski / Twarda / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This 1982 book examines the changes in hospital care in New York that occurred around the turn of the twentieth century. It represents a fundamental departure from traditional medical history, which has usually emphasised 'progress' through science and technology. Professor Rosner identifies the economic, political and demographic pressures that brought about a reshaping of the health care system, and analyses the dramatic reorganisation of hospitals that took place. He also discusses major scientific advances such as the discovery of anaesthetic properties of ether, nitrous oxide and...
This 1982 book examines the changes in hospital care in New York that occurred around the turn of the twentieth century. It represents a fundamental d...
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Medical Services and the Hospital in Britain, 1860-1939
ISBN: 9780521571265 / Angielski / Twarda / 110 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book summarizes the development of medical and hospital services in Britain before the Second World War, providing an outline description and reviewing the contributions of other writers in this area. Combining thematic and chronological treatments, the author considers health and mortality trends, service provision and the issues in professional reform, and highlights areas of social need. The book will be invaluable to students and teachers seeking a summary of the subject and a guide to further reading.
This book summarizes the development of medical and hospital services in Britain before the Second World War, providing an outline description and rev...
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Sex and Medicine: Gender, Power and Authority in the Medical Profession
ISBN: 9780521570930 / Angielski / Twarda / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book asks whether women doctors make a difference. Based on an extensive survey of general practioners and specialists in Australia and the UK, the book evokes the culture of contemporary medicine by describing the experiences of doctors themselves. Pringle employs a distinctive theoretical approach, but writes accessibly and with insight about a profession that is slowly being transformed--partly due to pressure from the increasing number of women doctors. This original and important work contains new visions for medical practice.
This book asks whether women doctors make a difference. Based on an extensive survey of general practioners and specialists in Australia and the UK, t...
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Medicine and Modernity: Public Health and Medical Care in Nineteenth- And Twentieth-Century Germany
ISBN: 9780521564113 / Angielski / Twarda / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection addresses, in a comprehensive and critical fashion, fundamental issues in the history of medicine in modern Germany and considers the nature of modern German government and society in relation to Western social, political, and economic development. The central focus is on the professionalization of modern medicine and the medicalization of modern society. The problem of Nazi Germany is a recurring theme. Other topics include: hospitals in early nineteenth century society, Social Darwinism, state-run health insurance, eugenics, social control, Nazi experimentation, and the...
This collection addresses, in a comprehensive and critical fashion, fundamental issues in the history of medicine in modern Germany and considers the ...
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The Price of Health: Australian Governments and Medical Politics 1910-1960
ISBN: 9780521381833 / Angielski / Twarda / 378 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides background to the current debate on health policy by studying the political conflict over it in Australia from 1910 to 1960. It looks at both state and national levels to identify the main structures and forces that shaped the system of publicly-subsidized private practice, which is now most obvious in the fee-for-service scheme.
This book provides background to the current debate on health policy by studying the political conflict over it in Australia from 1910 to 1960. It loo...
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Directing Research in Primary Care: Bk. 2, Going Clinical
ISBN: 9781846190285 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a highly practical book that focuses on the specifics of development in primary care research units. It discusses development of both research units and researchers themselves and offers helpful case studies that include an in-depth look at the development of one particular research unit. The issues and approaches used are applicable to all primary care researchers and administrators in medicine around the world. "Directing Research in Primary Care" is an easy to read, no-nonsense guide that provides invaluable information and guidance to individual researchers with, or contemplating,...
This is a highly practical book that focuses on the specifics of development in primary care research units. It discusses development of both research...
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What Works in Tackling Health Inequalities?: Pathways, Policies and Practice Through the Lifecourse
ISBN: 9781861346742 / Angielski / Miękka / 624 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In recent years, tackling health inequalities has become a key policy objective in the UK. However, doubts remain about how best to translate broad policy recommendations into practice. One key area of uncertainty concerns the role of local level initiatives.This book identifies the key targets for intervention through a detailed exploration of the pathways and processes that give rise to health inequalities across the lifecourse. It sets this against an examination of both local practice and the national policy context, to establish what works in health inequalities policy, how and why....
In recent years, tackling health inequalities has become a key policy objective in the UK. However, doubts remain about how best to translate broad po...
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Negotiating Health: Intellectual Property and Access to Medicines
ISBN: 9781844072958 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In developing countries, access to affordable medicines for the treatment of diseases such as AIDS and malaria, remains a matter of life or death. In Africa, for instance, more than one million children die each year from malaria alone, a figure which could soon be far higher with the extension of patent rules for pharmaceuticals. Previously, access to essential medicines was made possible by the supply of much cheaper generies, manufactured largely by India; from this year, however, the availability of these drugs is threatened as new WTO rules take effect. Halting the spread of malaria and...
In developing countries, access to affordable medicines for the treatment of diseases such as AIDS and malaria, remains a matter of life or death. In ...
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Health, Trade and Human Rights: Using Film and Other Visual Media in Graduate and Medical Education, V. 2
ISBN: 9781846190506 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work contains forewords by Desmond M. Tutu, Archbishop Emeritus, Cape Town, South Africa and Mogobe Ramose, Chairperson and Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of South Africa. "Health, Trade and Human Rights" shows how a policy of 'free' rather than 'fair' trade increasingly undermines Third World health. It clearly illustrates how the looming environmental crisis combined with growing levels of health inequity will have adverse effects and details precisely how the 'basic human rights' enshrined in the UN Charter have gradually become subsidiary to the...
This work contains forewords by Desmond M. Tutu, Archbishop Emeritus, Cape Town, South Africa and Mogobe Ramose, Chairperson and Professor of Philosop...
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Primary Care in the Twenty-First Century: An International Perspective
ISBN: 9781857757118 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Quality is at the heart of the government's strategy for NHS development, and which is to be delivered through clinical governance. This book explores accreditation through practical case studies and research findings, and outlines how it can assure the quality of care. Systems of accreditation for measuring and improving quality are described, and show how they can be used easily and effectively to meet the challenges of the new NHS. It is clear, concise and relevant to all the current changes in healthcare provision. All those responsible for delivering a service based on clinical and cost...
Quality is at the heart of the government's strategy for NHS development, and which is to be delivered through clinical governance. This book explores...
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