This highly practical text is full of interesting tips and words of advice covering all stages in publishing including proposals, selection of authors, writing, editing, finding the right publisher, managing other authors, self discipline, marketing, and finance. "This is a 'how to do it' book for anyone considering writing a book. It helps inexperienced or frustrated authors realise where they may be going wrong. Learn how to write to be understood. Pick up tips from the authors of this book- who have all been in the writing and publishing business for a long time. Although, the book focuses on writing for health and social care, most of the information and guidance about getting published can be transferred to any kind of book or publication." - From the Preface.

How to Succeed in Writing a Book: Contemporary Issues in Practice and Policy, Parts 1&2, Written Examination Revision Guide (How to Suceed Series)

Chambers, Ruth

Wakley, Gill

Nineham, Gilian

Moxon, Gregory

Topham, Michele

Literature & Fiction

CRC-Press

"Self care is about people's attitudes and lifestyle, as well as what they can do to take care of themselves when they have a health problem. Supporting self care is about increasing people's confidence and self esteem, enabling them to take decisions about the sensible care of their health and avoiding triggering health problems. Although many people are already practising self care to some extent, there is a great deal more that they can do." - Ruth Chambers, Gill Wakley and Alison Blenkinsopp, in the Preface. Designed around the Department of Health's Working in Partnership Programme, this book is full of easy-to-implement advice for everyday use, promoting a positive approach to self care and demonstrating how smoothly it can be introduced and undertaken. "Supporting Self Care in Primary Care" encourages interactive professional learning and development, both individually and within a team, and highlights the importance and benefits of self care in the workplace. It is a self-contained text with tools and illustrative examples to aid comprehension, and includes a complementary web resource containing further tools and a training package. All healthcare professionals involved in commissioning or providing primary care to patients will find this practical guide invaluable, as will healthcare managers and health promotion specialists.

Supporting Self Care in Primary Care: The Epidemiologically Based Needs Assessment Reviews, Breast Cancer - Second Series

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Blenkinsopp, Alison

Diseases & Physical Ailments

This work looks at best practice in the clinical management of sexual health and at ways to improve practice systems and procedures. Templates for personal and practice development plans are provided as well as important facts about common and serious conditions. Interactive exercises help assess learning needs, review performance and reflect on what improvements can be made. The book is clear and easy to use with references pointing towards reviews or summaries of best practice to help busy professionals benefit directly from the experiences of others.

Sexual Health Matters in Primary Care

Adler, Michael

Medical Books

Radcliffe Medical Press

The National Service Framework for diabetes aims to provide uniformly good systems so that more people have diabetes identified at an earlier stage and complications are controlled better. The book guides GPs, nurses and members of the primary care team towards improving the quality of diabetic care. It explains how improvements in clinical practice link to clinical governance, and how learning more about diabetes and reviewing current practice can be incorporated into a personal development plan, or a practice learning plan. Illustrated with practical exercises and worked examples of learning plans, it shows how to apply best practice in everyday work. It bridges the gulf between theory and practice, and describes current recommendations, the services available and new thinking around this topic.

Diabetes Matters in Primary Care

Stead, Jonathan

Medicine

Radcliffe Pub

This work explains in clear and concise terms the business side of general practice. It provides a reference for every GP practice and is particularly relevant to the needs of the younger principal, GP trainees and other doctors who have recently entered general practice. Each of the book's chapters provides a lucid description of a key facet of general practice and tells the reader how to obtain further advice and assistance.

Smoking Cessation Matters in Primary Care

Drury, Mark

Munafro, Marcus

Addiction & Recovery

'Fundamental changes in the Health Service demand a radical shift in approaches to patient core. The NHS is becoming increasingly led by the primary care sector. This has a greater meaning than simply more involvement of GPs in secondary care purchasing. It means that we start from where the patient is, in their own home and community. We provide care for them there and only move them into secondary services if and when it is appropriate to do so. 'Extending Primary Care shows that it is possible to experiment beyond traditional boundaries in these areas. It will provide encouragement to people who work in some of these difficult settings by showing what can be done...This book could not be more timely as a resource to many managers who will need to extend their own understanding of primary care - in the fullest sense of the whole team of people in primary care and the associated community health services.' From the Foreword by Barbara Stocking

Tackling Teenage Pregnancy: Sex, Culture and Needs

Chambers, Steph

Administration & Medicine Economics

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. In addition, they are encouraged to seek individual annual appraisals which highlight their progress and areas the require development. This book provides examples and ideas on how to document learning, competence, performance or standards of service delivery. It takes an important clinical theme throughout, providing key information on clinical management from the outset, followed by structured examples of evidence of performance and application of learning in practice, individualised for each clinical theme, focussing on cardiovascular and neurological conditions. It explains how to gather evidence from clinical interactions and other aspects of daily work. All nurses working in primary care with an interest in chronic disease management, especially those who are looking for a more ‘first contact’ work within their role will find this book valuable reading.

Demonstrating Your Clinical Competence in Cardiovascular and Neurological Conditions (Primary Care Nursing Series)

Ellis, Simon

Higgs, Jane

This volume, focusing on dermatology, is part of a survey of health care needs for specific conditions, published on behalf of the Department of Health. This study overall considers questions such as the population's needs, the services available or unavailable to them, the effectiveness of these services, and other perspectives in disease and service areas. This is the second series of needs assessment reviews.

Demonstrating Your Competence: v. 5 (Appraisal and Revalidation)

Gerada, Clare

Evidence-based medicine draws on terminology used in biostatistics epidemiology health economics philosophy ethics logic and the social sciences. In this unique compendium the author defines the common terms used in evidence-based medicine and provides useful notes and references to help the reader understand this terminology and explore further if necessary. The book explains statistical formulae commonly used in evidence-based medicine. It is ideal for doctors nurses and pharmacists who are not familiar with statistical terms and statisticians and health economists who are not familiar with pharmaceutical or clinical terminology. The definitions explanatory notes and references are clear and easily understandable.

Demonstrating Your Clinical Competence in Respiratory Disease, Diabetes and Dermatology (Primary Care Nursing)

Pullan, Alistair

Clinical audit is essential for demonstrating performance for the quality and outcomes framework of the GP Contract. This completely up to date manual uses a practical ‘how-to-do-it’ approach, linked directly to the GP Contract, to make the undertaking of clinical audit a positive and rewarding exercise for both patient care and practice finance. By using examples of clinical audit from around twenty different clinical fields, Clinical Audit in Primary Care provides tips and advice that can be integrated into everyday practice. The recommended process will enable managers, doctors, nurses and clinical staff to collect the data painlessly and to draw meaningful results from it. Its principles will also provide practical guidance to pharmacists and others in the multidisciplinary team involved in clinical audit.

Clinical Audit in Primary Care: Demonstrating Quality and Outcomes

Business & Money

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