Public ownership / nationalization Books

Book SynopsisThis book offers a unique framework to understand how public institutions and private investors can collaborate to sustain long-term investments (LTIs), with a specific focus on public private partnership for infrastructure, blended finance mechanisms, and impact investing.Offering a holistic approach to long-term investing, which encompasses both infrastructure and corporate innovation and sustainability strategies, chapters explore how collaborations can mobilize resources, overcome market failures, and maximize impacts. Furthermore, it provides a deeper understanding on LTIs, both in terms of the sustainable investment approaches that investors are progressively adopting, and in terms of the main domains of LTIs such as infrastructure and corporate investments in research and innovation, sustainability, and circularity. The book also highlights how LTIs are essential to ensure the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, which represent an institutionalization of the concept of public value.Public-Private Collaborations for Long-Term Investments will be critical reading for policymakers, investors, and managers working in the public and private sectors. The combination of cutting-edge insights and depth of knowledge rooted in the scientific literature will also be beneficial for scholars and students in the fields of public administration and management, infrastructure finance, and sustainability.Trade Review‘The business of business is being redefined before our very eyes: inclusion, sustainability, impact and ESG are now integrated into most investment decisions. Much more needs to be done as Agenda 2030 will not be met until “all hands on deck”. This book can serve as a good starting point for this critical collaboration.’ -- Royston Braganza, Grameen Capital‘This book highlights the importance of activating private capital to close the infrastructure gap and creating stronger collaboration between the public and private sectors. This will help to drive economic recovery in the short-term whilst driving longer-term economic and social outcomes.’ -- Marie Lam-Frendo, Global Infrastructure Hub‘This book is an excellent reference to university and master students, executives and civil servants, academic researchers and many others that are keen to learn more about enabling long-term investments and public-private collaborations.’ -- Iliyana Tsanova, European CommissionTable of ContentsContents: Foreword Iliyana Tsanova, Deputy Director-General - DG Budget, European Commission Preface 1. Public-private partnerships for long-term investments: the context and the framework 2. The journey towards sustainability: corporate social responsibility and sustainable investing 3. Catalyzing wealth toF drive positive social and environmental change: impact investing 4. Unlocking private capital through blended finance 5. Infrastructure as long-term investment: understanding the public-private boundaries 6. Developing infrastructure through contractual public-private partnership References Index

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Book SynopsisAccording to conventional wisdom, public ownership of industry in post-war Britain led, invariably, to under-performance. This book casts doubt upon this view by showing that, as far as the labour productivity record of the expanding state-owned industries is concerned, this was clearly not the case.The book compares the 1954-79 labour productivity record of 5 expanding public sector industries to that of 24 expanding, capital intensive, mass-production industries in the British private sector. The author shows that the public sector industries' labour productivity growth was significantly faster than that of the private sector industries. Strikingly, he also finds that the state-owned industries were narrowing their productivity gap with their US counterparts at a significantly faster rate than the private sector industries. Dr Iordanoglou concludes that it is possible that public ownership had - in the historical period investigated - a long-term positive effect on these industries.This book will be of great interest to scholars of industrial economics, public sector economics and economic history.Trade Review'Iordanoglou has carried out a very significant piece of work. His basic idea of comparing the growth rate of productivity in the public and private sectors over a 25-year period provides a very useful method of approaching the bigger question of the relative efficiency of public enterprise . . . The book deserves wide distribution.' -- John Calvert, Labour / Le Travail'The merits of the work include a critical examination of the conventional wisdom that British nationalised companies 'failed' and the rejection of this standard view; the use of a highly original method, based on historical evidence, to examine the productivity performance of British industries; scrupulous treatment of the industrial statistics and a quite exemplary, path-breaking, approach to international productivity comparisons; a theory of industrial performance which makes full use of the latest theory, while situating industries in their social and political context.' -- John Grahl, University of North London, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. Selection of the Sample 3. The Intertemporal Labour Productivity Comparisons 4. US–UK Labour Productivity Comparisons 5. Questions of Interpretation Appendices: A. Selection of the Sample: Technical Background B. Measurement of the Intertemporal Output Indices C. Measurement of the Employment Indices D. International Labour Productivity Comparisons Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the ongoing transformation of public utilities, also known as network-based industries, in Western Europe and the United States. Examples are telecommunications, energy, and water distribution. Most of these network-based industries were until recently natural monopolies. Over the last two decades national governments have embarked upon privatization, deregulation and liberalization of their public utilities. The contributors in this volume examine the many related aspects, including: key characteristics and regulation of network based industries the emerging EU regulatory framework corporate strategies, industry dynamics, and organizational performance case studies from the telecommunications and water industries engineering competition versus engineering regulation. This book provides a non-ideological and multidisciplinary overview of recent views and experiences with the liberalization, privatization and regulatory reform of public utilities in Europe and the United States. As such it will be of interest to scholars and researchers of institutional economics, and organizational studies, as well as regulators, policymakers and consultants involved in both studying and governing network-based industries.Trade Review'The introductory chapter by the editors is extremely wide-ranging and therefore very useful for any reader not yet introduced to the manifold intricacies of this topic. What is remarkable about this chapter is that three aspects are dealt with at the same time: the driving forces of the reform of network industries, the economics of pro-competitive regulation of them, and the political and institutional traps/complexities of this process. If this were not enough, it is done with a view on both the US and Europe. The remainder of the book shows, sometimes with painstaking detail, not only how difficult it is for regulators and their political masters but also for incumbents and not just for new entrants, as is always stressed. It shows the tricky question of extending reforms to the water and sewage sectors, how complex state/company interactions are in the first and later stages of reform and how hard it is to design 'regulation' properly in the second generation.' -- Jacques Pelkmans, College of Europe, Bruges and Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels, BelgiumTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: Making Markets and Controlling Competition: Regulatory Reform in Public Utilities Part I: Perspectives on Engineering Competition 1. Engineering Competition: The European Approach 2. The Role of Regulation in an Era of Partial Competition Part II: Empirical Overview Papers 3. The Dynamics of Regulation: Performance, Risk and Strategy in the Privatized, Regulated Industries 4. The Privatization of Infrastructures in the Theory of the State: An Empirical Overview and a Discussion of Competing Theoretical Explanations Part III: Country/Sector Studies 5. Policies for Open Network Access 6. Liberalization and Technical Change in Finland 7. A Waterloo of Utility Liberalization? How Great Deregulation Expectations were Dashed by the Dutch Water Industry in the 1990s Part IV: Conclusion 8. Engineering Competition – Or Engineering Regulation? Index

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Book SynopsisThe IPO Decision is an exciting new book that clarifies how the initial public offering (IPO) process actually works. It separates fact from fiction and imposes a logical structure on the most up-to-date IPO-related research. All major topics pertaining to the going-public process are included: IPO timing, the financial, strategic, and corporate governance benefits and costs of public ownership, corporate restructuring, valuation, the role of the investment bank in the primary and secondary markets, the optimality of IPO mechanisms (book-building vs. auctions), analyst coverage, and the long-run performance of IPOs. IPOs garnered unprecedented positive attention in the 1990s for their spectacular returns and central role in entrepreneurial activity. Subsequent revelations of unscrupulous IPO allocation and promotion practices cast a less favorable shadow. The latest significant event in the IPO market is Google's unconventional use of an auction for its offering. Public discussion and debate about these developments has often taken place in an information vacuum, leading to misunderstandings and false conclusions.Unparalleled in its scope, The IPO Decision presents the findings from theoretical and empirical research in a rigorous yet accessible manner. In doing so, it develops the intellectual foundation necessary for a constructive dialogue about reforming the IPO process. Scholars, students and industry professionals interested in the economics of IPOs will find this volume a comprehensive and engaging addition to their library.Trade Review'Because of its scope and detail, The IPO Decision would be a useful addition to an academic library serving a finance program or that has a financial services library. Public librarians might consider this book if they have a large constituency of sizable private businesses of finance students.' -- Janet Hartman, Research Librarian, William Blair & Co, Chicago, Business Information Alert'This volume certainly belongs in undergraduate libraries. Faculty who teach courses in the economics of finance can use the book as a reference and as a guide for students working on papers on the economics of initial public offerings (IPOs). Draho summarizes the extant literature on all aspects of the subject. For example, a student interested in the valuation process underlying initial public offerings receives a well-written overview of the approaches used, including both discounted cash flows and real option analysis. Students are also guided to the relevant literature on the subject. . . a useful resource for beginning research on this topic. Highly recommended.' -- W.S. Curran, Choice'Jason Draho's The IPO Decision is a clear, well organized, and especially well researched book on the IPO environment, process, and stock price results.' -- Roger G. Ibbotson, Yale University and Chairman, Ibbotson Associates, Inc., US'Even more important in the post-Internet bubble world, The IPO Decision by Jason Draho provides a critical, in-depth and practical perspective on the crucial terms and factors that influence the IPO process. From the company that plans to go public (or its professional advisor) to the buy side or sell side investment banker - the book provides a roadmap for all professionals associated with the IPO process.' -- Ross Barrett, President and Co-Founder, VC Experts, Inc., New York, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction 2. IPO Timing and Information 3. Financing Options and Costs 4. Strategic Behavior 5. Control, Monitoring and Governance 6. The External Market: An International Comparison 7. Corporate Restructuring 8. Valuation 9. Preparing for the IPO 10. IPO Mechanisms: Allocations and Pricing 11. The IPO Aftermarket 12. Post-IFO Financing 13. Long-run Performance 14. Final Thoughts References Index

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Book Synopsis"Rationing Medical Care on the Basis of Age" explores this highly topical issue and presents a critical argument on the nature of the possible crisis. Its in-depth philosophical analysis of the main ethical positions adopts an interdisciplinary and international approach. This book is important reading for healthcare policy makers and shapers and healthcare managers. Academics in ethics, philosophy, economics, and all healthcare disciplines will find it useful, as will public health specialists, health economists, and social scientists with an interest in health and medicine.Trade Review"'The importance and originality of this book is that it now supplies a clearly argued ethical analysis of the complex medical, social and moral dimensions of this perceived crisis, leaving attentive readers in no doubt that the fundamental questions raised for society are indeed moral ones. The authors of this book have opened up significant new perspectives on many important issues which in practice confront politicians, managers, professionals, patients and the public today. They have done this moreover in a way that is highly accessible to a non-specialist readership. Eric Matthews and Elizabeth Russell are to be congratulated on this major achievement, and this book is to be highly commended to everyone concerned with the future of health care.' Kenneth Boyd, in his foreword"Table of ContentsPerception of crisis. The costs of aging. The moral foundations of publicly funded medical care. Ethics and the crisis. Daniels and the 'Prudent Lifespan' account. Ethics and resource allocation. Callahan and the significance of age. Critique of Callahan. Crisis of aging? Policy implications.

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Book SynopsisThis work traces and anticipates past, present and future changes in mental health services to assess the impact both of developments in care, and of the implications of new organisational change. It includes contributions and perspectives of those involved in services at all levels, including service users, to draw upon their experience to give a fuller picture of today and help sketch in tomorrow. It balances academic scrutiny with personal involvement, to reflect both national trends and local initiatives. Overall this work is in two volumes, each of which can stand alone: this Part 1 focuses on the realities of offering and receiving care at a practical and local level; it concentrates on personal experiences within mental health services as user, carer, provider and professional.The companion book Part 2 reviews policy and practice from national and international perspectives. Together these books provide essential information and views on mental health services for professionals throughout health and social care, managers, policy planners and policy shapers including those in the third sector and patient groups, academics and the media.Trade Review'Public health workers who work in this topic area will find much that is of interest - a useful overview of some current debates.'PUBLIC HEALTHTable of ContentsHonesty without discrimination. Community teams: outreach and intervention. Homelessness and disorder: the challenge of the antisocial and the societal response. Moving on from the National Service Framework for mental health: the social inclusion agenda. A GP’s view: interview with Dr Helen Pelendrides. Dual diagnosis. Advocacy: does it really work? Prejudice and progress. Clients as colleagues: part of the path to recovery? A personal account: from my life. Working with young people. Creating a small community. A space for creativity and healing: Artists in Mind and the mental health system. Enhancing the healing environment. The Retreat: an alternative view from the independent sector.

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Book SynopsisThis pioneering work addresses a key issue that confronts all industrialised nations: How do we organise healthcare services in accordance with fundamental human rights, whilst competing with scientific and technological advances, powerful commercial interests and widespread public ignorance? "The Nature of Health" presents a coherent, affordable and logical way to build a healthcare system. It argues against a health system fixated on the pursuit of longevity and suggests an alternative where the ability of an individual to function in worthwhile relationships is a better, more human goal. By reviewing the etymology, sociology and anthropology of health, this controversial guide examines the meaning of health, and proves how a community-centred healthcare system improves local economy, creates social capital and is affordable, rational, personal, and just. "This is badly needed nourishment for a medical system glutted on technology, individualism, profit and the pursuit of longevity. Read and be fed." - Christopher Koller, Health Insurance Commissioner, The State of Rhode Island, USA. "Unique. Surprising. A real eye-opener. Just about everyone who doesn't have a vested financial interest in maintaining the status quo will agree that U.S. healthcare is badly broken. [This book] is making it possible for us to refocus from how to provide healthcare to how to achieve health. Their description of health as successful functioning in community, rather than as a measure of longevity is a definition that can make a reader feel healthier as they take gradually appreciate the power of the concept. On this foundation, it is not as hard as one might think to outline a healthcare system that is equitable, affordable and achievable." - Alexander Blount EdD, Professor of Family Medicine, University of Massacusetts Medical Center.Trade Review'Compelling [...] raises important questions about the goals of health- care spending.' AGEING AND SOCIETYTable of ContentsWhat health is not: demented and contracted. The health we have. The health we buy. What we measure is not health. Medications are not health. Medicine is not health either. Science is business, not health. Hancock County. What went wrong and why? The happy victim. The human tsunami. The reductive trap. The trap is sprung. How longevity kidnapped health. Medical services and communities. The zero sum game. Three people, three aortas. What health is. A fib. What Webster thinks. Old villages, new lives. Toward a social definition of health. Health and community together. Health and fairness. Amish boy. What's next? Who gets what? How should it look? How should we pay for it? Which doctors?

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Book SynopsisThis remarkable book offers enlightening reading for everyone interested in international law, human rights, global health, public health and health promotion. Public health and health promotion professionals, including international healthcare organisations, care agencies, and international charities will find the analysis illuminating. It is also of great interest to policy makers and shapers in communities and government, political activists and all those with an interest in equality and globalisation.Table of ContentsThe UN – Its origins, problems and contradictions. Selling off the UN to neoliberalism. Privatisation of water – and the problems of sustainability. Dams and dambusters. WHO – accessory after the fact? The UN’s dalliance with nuclear power. Neoliberalism and the human right to health. Is the WHO mandate workable? Summary and recommendations.

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Book SynopsisWhy is it that in spite of all the health policy reforms, clinical practice innovations, increasing intersectoral interdependencies and new medical and information technologies, so little has changed in the way we research and evaluate health care? Don't these changes cry out for new ways of being studied and appraised? And don't our approaches to clinical practice innovation cry out for being reinvented too? Surely, we cannot continue to wheel out research and evaluation paradigms, improvement approaches and methods that were designed for 20th century problems and 20th century health care, and assume they will be able to make sense of the problems we experience and the care we provide in the 21st century? These changes necessitate a new paradigm of health service research, evaluation and improvement and this new model adopts approaches and methods that embrace complexity. The approaches and methods can account for the vicissitudes of front-line care, the activities of front-line staff and the experiences of patients and families - where care happens. Visualising Health Care Practice Improvement draws on years of video feedback research shaping an approach that enables not only a retrospective understanding but also a view into the future, of what might be possible. It presents the argument that change is not principally about adopting solutions from elsewhere but that it is conditional on people exploring whether proposed solutions suit existing habituations. It involves a process of exploration, discovery, secession and renewal. Health care managers, policy makers and shapers will find this book enlightening. It will also be empowering to all health care professionals and front-line staff.Trade Review"In my experience, healthcare is a safety-critical world (justifiably) skeptical about outside interventions to 'improve' it. Exnovations are a great answer, and this book demonstrates beautifully how improvements can be made to work from within." - Sidney Dekker, Professor, Safety Science Innovation Lab, Griffith University, Australia "This book shows how to move beyond engagement to empowerment of front-line clinicians in quality and safety improvements, expanding their skills and intelligence to a new level to create sustainable solutions for complex safety challenges." - Ian Leistikow, MD PhD, Senior Inspector, Dutch Healthcare Inspectorate, the Netherlands "Relatively recent advances in technology have accumulated like sedimentary rock on the ancient foundation of medicine to produce a complex and error-prone system. Placing the video camera in their hands, clinicians are directed to clearly view and review their daily practices in order to improve the quality of their services. Iedema and colleagues view the world of medical practice and technology with a fresh (video) eye, showing clinicians are able to heal themselves" - Associate Professor Kenneth Herrmann, MD, Neonatal-Intensive Care Specialist, Indiana University School of Medicine (Department of Paediatrics) and Women's Deaconness Hospital in Newburgh, Indiana, USTable of ContentsPreface. About the authors. List of contributors. Glossary. Healthcare practice improvement from within. The complexity of health care work. Does the complexity of care call for 'research complexity'? Exnovation: innovation from within. Improving medical handover using video methodology: two projects, two perspectives. Forms of feedback in video-reflexivity: some notes and observations on a Maastricht experiment. Improving postoperative handovers using video reflexivity: the Utrecht experience. Designing an ambulance paramedic to emergency triage staff handover protocol for New South Wales, Australia. Conclusion: improving one's own practices and relationships 'from within'. Bibliography. Index.

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Book Synopsis'The Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) is a system to financially reward general practices for providing quality care to their patients. It is a fundamental part of the GMS contract, introduced in April 2004. QOF is estimated to have saved up to 10,000 lives a year since its introduction - ' - From the Preface Filled with practical guidance and tips, this book explains everything you need to do in order to score 'maximum' on all the clinical indicators in the QOF. Using tables and lists, it details areas such as setting up a disease register, ensuring that you have an accepted definition of the condition, arranging a practice meeting to discuss registers and motivating team members to use and think about templates as well as cross-checking hospital letters and discharges summaries, conducting a repeat prescription search, actively screening at-risk patients and ensuring an efficient call and recall system. These are the basic rules which apply to any and every clinical indicator. Offering guidance on and insight into the origins of different targets, possible shortfalls, and ways to implement change and improve scores, this easy-to-read book is vital for all general practitioners, GP Commissioners, QOF assessors, and PCT QOF teams. Practice nurses, who are often relied upon to maintain QOF standards, will find the information essential. GP Registrars, medical students, Pharmacists, Health Care Assistants and Practice Managers will also find much of interest.Table of ContentsQOF Clinical Indicators 2009/10. How to Achieve Maximum QOF Points. QOF - good or bad? New Quality Indicators 2011/12. Points and Pounds. Asthma. Atrial Fibrillation. Cancer. Cardiovascular Disease - Primary Prevention. Coronary Heart Disease - Secondary Prevention. Chronic Kidney Disease. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. Dementia. Depression. Diabetes Mellitus. Epilepsy. Ethnicity. Heart Failure. Hypertension. Hypothyroidism.

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Book SynopsisCulture, Context and Quality in Health Sciences Research, Education, Leadership and Patient Care (Second book in a series of five) Sustainably Improving Health Care promotes the importance of integrating improved care outcomes, system performance, and professional development so that the future of health-care advancement is creative and sustainable. It addresses the challenge of creating and nurturing a culture of continuous improvement that is able to sustain and generate creative professional work for the improvement of health care. Using real-world examples, the book succinctly reveals how the model can be practically applied from a variety of different perspectives. "This book makes the persuasive argument that well-intended efforts to redesign and reform health care will enjoy only short lives without the full commitment and engagement of the health-care worker - the product of the sustainability- and capacity-building engine of professional development." Dave Davis MD, CCFP, FCFP, in the Foreword "This book is about a model that has emerged from our own work, our observations of the work of colleagues and others, and our refl ections about the requirements for the future of the continual improvement of health care. We explore its origins, its content and manifestations, and its implications, particularly for health professional leaders interested in the ongoing improvement of health care. Form and vitality develop in the model as it engages reality - the reality of trying to create cultures of sustainable, generative approaches to the ongoing improvement of health care." From the PrefaceTable of ContentsForeword. Preface. The evolutionary beginnings of the model. Better patient, population outcome: practical approaches that health systems can adopt for measuring the health of patients and populations. Better system performance: approaches to improving care by addressing different levels of systems. Better professional development - competence, mastery, pride and joy. Teaching the triangle - the Dartmouth-Hitchcock leadership preventive medicine residency program. Simple, complicated and complex phenomena in health care - using the triangle to improve reliability and resiliency in health care systems. Faculty as coaches: their development and their work. Governance, leadership, management, organizational structure and oversight principles and practices. The triangle and undergraduate medical education. Triangle synergies in a national quality and safety education initiative in nursing. Collaborative improvement of cancer care in southeastern Sweden - striving for better patient and population health, better care, and better professional development. Contributing authors' reflections.

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Book SynopsisThe future of basic and translational research in health care depends on the ability of large, complex health science centers to educate, discover new answers to complex problems, and operate in the service of the public good. So what ingredients are required for successful research in academic health science centers (AHSCs)? This volume presents a number of compelling, international stories about personal and professional investments in research activities as well as the challenges, opportunities, and satisfactions. Each chapter explores concepts for successful research with a focus on the ways communities of practice form and sustain themselves in this complex environment. They explore questions such as creating and sustaining community, promoting innovation, transitions in leadership, and cross-generation collaboration from a personal perspective. They also present a series of portraits of scientists at work: building relationships, supporting one another, and contributing to their fields of study in unique ways. Enhancing the Professional Culture of Academic Health Science Centers offers enlightening reading for researchers, administrators, and policy makers interested in present and future research activities in AHSCs, who will be inspired by narratives of perseverance, passion, generosity, and generativity that fuel research in the centers.Table of ContentsPreface. About the authors. What's the story? A composite narrative of success in science in academic health science centers. Challenges and ingredients for success in the health science enterprise: a view from two corner offices. Breaking out of the silos in the heartland: making a clinical and translational science award program sing in Indiana. Sparking and sustaining the essential functions of research: what supports translation of research into health care? Answers from the group health experience. Sparking and sustaining the essential functions of research: what promotes discovery? Experience and insights from a medical school in China. Sparking and sustaining the essential functions of research: how the seeds were sown and grown at a summer camp for young clinicians. Sparking and sustaining the essential functions of research: cultivating 'research mind' - reason, dreams, and discovery. The relationship-centered care research network: its birth, life-cycle, and lessons learned along the way. Successful aging in research.

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Book SynopsisAcademic Health Science Centers are complex organizations with three principal functions: the education of the next generation of health professionals; the conduct of biomedical and clinical research that leads to new treatments and approaches to disease; and the delivery of comprehensive and advanced patient care. This is the first comprehensive book that describes in detail the knowledge and skill base necessary to successfully lead these complex organizations. Written by the world's leading authorities it combines the science of leadership, organizational structure, financial and personnel management, public relations and communications, trainee and student policy, community relations, and globalization. "This volume focuses on policy considerations that provide the foundation for AHSCs to thrive. While the legislation, challenges, and strategies will change over time, the need for strong policy to influence and guide organizational and individual behavior will not. AHSCs are complex organizations that must continue to evolve to face the multifactorial nature of health care problems. How they do so will depend to a great extent not only on having appropriate policies in place but also on their success in translating these policies into effective implementation." Andrew M. Ibrahim and M. Roy Wilson, in the ForewordTable of ContentsPreface. Foreword. Glossary of Terms. About the Authors. Introduction: The Hallmarks of Successful Academic Health Science Center Leadership. Academic Health Science Centers in the New World Order: Optimizing Structure and Governance for High Performance. Organizational Structure, Data, and Academic Health Science Center Transformation. Contemporary Challenges in Academic Health Science Center Financial Management. Conflicts of Interest and Commitment: Policy Making in the Academic Health Science Center. Regulation, Accreditation, and the Compliance Function. Human Resources and Personnel Management. Trainee and Student Policy. Faculty Accountability. Developing and Implementing a Communications Philosophy and Supporting Policies. Community Relations. Academic Health Science Centers and Global Medicine. Afterword. Acknowledgement. Index.

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Book SynopsisThe Allied Health Professions - Essential Guides series is unique in providing advice on management, leadership and development for those in the Allied Health Professions (AHP). This highly practical volume offers a wide range of assessment tools and techniques in such critical areas as management quality, organisational and management structure, benchmarking, capacity and demand management, care pathway design, activity analysis, report writing and presentation skills. The layout is conducive to easy comprehension; tables, figures and boxed text aid quick reference and everyday application, and many of the resources are also provided on a complimentary CD. With contributions from internationally renowned professionals Key tools and techniques in management and leadership of the allied health professions provides tools that will be vital to all allied health professionals interested in providing timely, efficient and cost-effective care for their patients. These will include AHP managers and aspiring managers, senior clinicians, extended scope practitioners, clinical specialists, AHP educators, researchers, staff and students. 'The NHS is facing the greatest period of challenge in its history. The key to success is leadership. Allied Health Professionals will be a central part of this leadership response. In this work, Robert and Fiona continue their series supporting Allied Health Professionals in that leadership journey. It is an important contribution to this critical effort.' From the Foreword by Jim EastonTable of ContentsManagement quality in the AHPs evaluation matrix. Our assessment tool for evaluating AHP management structures. Benchmarking AHP services. Time is money, how do we spend it?- Analysing staff activity. Principles for computerised information systems for AHP services. Information management and IT support. Using the Myers Briggs Type Indicator within the Allied Health Professions. Appraisal: 360° feedback. Four basic behavioural styles. Adult learning and self-directed learners. Developing your teaching style and techniques. Outcome measurement matrix for AHP services. Models, techniques and approaches for change management. Outcome measurement matrix for AHP services. Care pathways and the allied health professional. Effective report writing and presentation: Planning the report. Top tips for report writing. Top tips for report presentation. Templates. Useful guidance.

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Book Synopsis'In recent decades most of the international effort given over to studying and improving the safety of patient care has been focused in acute hospital settings. To some extent this was always something of a puzzle to those of us with a direct interest in this important issue...Now, however, the tide is slowly turning. Policymakers, healthcare leaders and research grant funders are beginning to recognise that greater evidence is required to understand more about what can and does go wrong in primary care, with increasing attention now being paid to what can be done to minimise avoidable harm to patients in this setting.' From the Preface This remarkable new book represents a substantial body of work - led by key educators and researchers - devoted to learning about and improving the safety of primary healthcare. It offers highly practical guidance and evidence for a broad range of related improvement methods, concepts and interventions developed and implemented by the NES primary care team, or as a direct result of fruitful partnerships between academic, professional, public or regulatory institutions across the UK and internationally. Skillfully presented, the book is organised into five interlinked parts, each with a number of related chapters. Safety and Improvement in Primary Care: The Essential Guide is ideal for frontline clinicians, managers and healthcare administrators needing practical guidance on safety and is also highly recommended for improvement advisers, patient safety officers, clinical governance facilitators, risk managers, and health services researchers wanting a critical review of theory and evidence.Table of ContentsForeword. Preface. About the editors. List of contributors. Acknowledgements. Dedication. Prologue. Part I: Understanding systems. The heart of the matter: a parent's perspective. Improvement strategies and challenges. Safety culture. The wisdom hierarchy. Measuring harm systems thinking. Task analysis. Process mapping. Policies, procedures and protocols. Patient and public involvement - Part 1. Part II: People and improvement. Patient and public involvement - Part 2. Clinician engagement. Professionalism. Peer review. Professional appraisal. Multi-source feedback. General practice management. General practice nursing. Part III: Learning for improvement. Safety skills. Safety checklist for GP training. Practice-based small group learning. Protected learning time. Consultation skills. The power of apology. Part IV: Managing patient safety. Managing human error. Diagnostic error. Medication error. Medicines reconciliation: a case study. Safe results handling. Never events. Part V: Improvement methods. Enhanced significant event analysis. Criterion audit. Care bundles. The plan-do-study-act method. The trigger review method. Measuring safety climate improving out-of-hours care. Care improvement: a personal reflection. Index.

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Book Synopsis• Benefit from Belbin’s own experience of putting the Team Roles method into practice• Succinct and practical information to enable managers to make a real difference in the workplace• Real-life case studies show how to apply the theory in practiceMeredith Belbin’s unique and widely-read work on teams has become part of everyday language for organizations around the world. For every manager, getting the most from their team is paramount in achieving superior results. Belbin’s vital area of management research supersedes the usual preoccupations with qualifications and experience, considering instead the Team Role behaviours which shape everyday interactions in teams.Management Teams: Why they succeed or fail is an account of the experimental study of management teams at Henley Management College from which Belbin’s unique Team Role theory developed. Now in its third edition the original theory has been fully updated and rewritten in parts by the author, with chapter summaries and updated illustrations. This is the original book by Meredith Belbin, offering the only authoritative explanation of how Belbin’s world-famous Team Role language came into being.Download and print a free, full-page summary of Team Roles with their icons, descriptions, strengths and allowable weaknesses from http://www.belbin.com/books/books.htmR. Meredith Belbin was formerly Chairman of the Industrial Training Research Unit. A founder Member of Belbin Associates, he is also Visiting Professor and Honorary Fellow of Henley Management College.Related TitleBelbin: Team Roles at Work, 2e, ISBN: 978-1-85617-800-6Trade Review'Overall, the combination of Belbin’s easy prose style and the use of chapter summaries means that this is a very accessible work. While the focus on empiricism will not appeal to all readers, it provides a fascinating insight into the development of one of the most influential management theories of our time.'Rob Palethorpe, Industrial and Commercial Training JournalTable of ContentsChapter 1 Making Teams Effective; Chapter 2 The Apollo Syndrome; Chapter 3 Teams Containing Similar Personalities; Chapter 4 Creativity in the Team; Chapter 5 Team Leadership; Chapter 6 Other Key Team Roles; Chapter 7 Unsuccessful Teams; Chapter 8 Winning Teams; Chapter 9 Ideal Team Size; Chapter 10 Features of Good Members of a Team; Chapter 11 Designing a Team; Chapter 12 Teams in Public Affairs; Chapter 13 Thirty Years Later;

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Book SynopsisIn this introductory text, the author presents the law relating to child care and the reforms introduced by the Children Act 1989, assessing its impact on child care practice and procedures. Focusing on a practical interpretation of the law by the use of hypothetical examples, practice notes and recommendations, the book illustrates its relevance to those working in the caring and health professions, and incorporates details of various sets of Guidance and Regualtions issued by the Department of Health. In addition it provides an outline of adoption law, the principles of consent to treatment and the effect of surrogacy and "assisted reproduction" on the legal definition of parenthood.Table of ContentsSection 1: Introduction. What is a group – and what does it do. The group in its wider context. Section 2: The small group process. Setting the scene for effective small group work. Facilitation. Methods used in group work. Forming. Storming and norming.. Performing. Evaluation group process. When groups go wrong. Section 3: Small group work in educational settings. Evidence for effectiveness of small group work in education. A case study of using small groups in postgraduate education – teaching evidence-based health care. The virtual small group. Section 4: Small group work in organisational settings. Group problem solving. Groups across boundaries: multidisciplinary and multi-agency team working.Project management. Leadership. Section 5: Small groups in research. The focus groups as a research tool. Consensus research.

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Book SynopsisThe rise of evidence-based healthcare has put emphasis on finding specific evidence. Trying to find exactly the right article you are looking for can be vital especially when meeting a tight deadline or trying to find evidence for a particular treatment. This book from the Harnessing Health Information series shows the reader how to find the exact article quickly and efficiently. Fully referenced, it includes handy information such as acronyms with full descriptions and the available search tools. It looks at how novice users can find information in a straightforward and friendly way.Table of ContentsWhat is a health library? Understanding the library. Key special collections in health. Finding published materials. The reference enquiry. When it is not in the library. The electronic age. The future.

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Book SynopsisThe National Service Framework for mental health aims to provide uniformly good systems so that mental health problems are detected and therefore treated early. This book sets out how learning more about mental health and reviewing current practice can be incorporated into a personal development plan, or practice learning plan. It shows how to integrate quality improvements into everyday work, and bridges the gap between theory and practice. Doctors, nurses and practice managers can build up a personal development plan, or a practice professional development plan through completing the exercises at the end of each chapter, and it demonstrates how to include clinical governance in the mental healthcare services they offer.Table of ContentsClinical governance and mental health. Depression. Generalized anxiety disorder. Obsessive compulsive disorder. Stress. Schizophrenia. Dementia. Draw up and apply your personal development plan. Draw up your practice personal and professional development plan. Appendix One: Support groups, information and resources, and self help literature about mental healthcare.

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Book SynopsisThe NHS pension scheme is the largest in Europe. This guide explains how it works and how to maximize its benefits and avoid its pitfalls. The book covers: recent changes to the scheme including new provisions for early retirement; personal pensions, financial planning and investment options; advice on preparing for retirement and working after retirement; state benefits; and health and leisure in retirement. It is written for all NHS staff and should be of particular value to GPs and salaried doctors.Table of ContentsAn overview of evidence-based management * Managing the job * Using information and knowledge * Are we doing a good job? * Improving decision making * Learning to practise evidence-based management * Organisational culture * In conclusion

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Book SynopsisHow can the quality of service provision and clinical governance in primary care be assessed? This book is designed to help evaluate the way practices interpret their legal obligations, the way the management systems within practices run, and the quality of the systems and processes that most affect the patient care. Quantifying Quality in Primary Care contains frameworks on which to build policies for the smooth running of practices and provides clear insights into attitudes of those working within them, and how to use this information to improve service provision. This straightforward, concise guide will help general practitioners, registrars and managers in primary care improve both service provision and management in the practice.Table of ContentsIntroduction. Quality in Primary Care. Using the tool. Part 1: The patients' experience. Practice demography. Access. Building, environment and equipment. Health promotion and chronic disease management. Prescribing. Record keeping and letters. Part 3: Practice management policies, staff and education. Management policies clinical governance and risk management. Staff employment. Communication and team working. IT and computerised systems. Continuing medical education and personal professional development. Patient and service user involvement.

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Book SynopsisThis stimulating series is unique in providing advice on management, leadership and development for those in the Allied Health Professions (AHP). This concise companion guides readers through current key management challenges, the structure of the NHS, legal matters, professional regulation, research and cultural issues. With contributions from internationally renowned professionals, Managing and Leading in the Allied Health Professions provides vital information for AHP managers and aspiring managers, senior clinicians, extended scope practitioners, clinical specialists, AHP educators, researchers, staff and students. It will also be invaluable for clinical scientists, pharmacists and optometrists.Table of ContentsManagement in the allied health professions. Changing structure, organization and management of the NHS. Evolution and significance of the profession in AHP management. Allied health professions management and organization what structure? Assessing Management Structures. Using organization as a strategic resource to build identity and influence. Leadership in the allied health professions. Legal issues arising in the management, leadership, and development in allied health professions. Professional regulation. From clinical governance to integrated governance. Research in the clinical setting. The discipline of strategic thinking in health care. Entrepreneurial action for social change: a primer for healthcare professionals. Cultural issues and management.

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Book SynopsisGreat and increasing inequities exist between the peoples of the Third World and those of the First. As well, we find ourselves threatened by imminent environmental catastrophes largely as a result of trying to maintain such inequities. This clear and straightforward text explains the complex origins of such bodies as the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and others, and demonstrates the extent to which they exacerbate the problem. The situation is now so grave that we can no longer afford the luxury of leaving it to the professionals. We are all involved. We find ourselves hearing daily news reports of wars, starvation, the HIV/AIDS pandemic and natural disasters, rendered worse by inadequate international responses. The United Nations, once seen as an effective arbiter and mediator in such matters, now finds itself unable to exercise authority adequately. Third World Health: hostage to First World Wealth adopts a positive approach and puts forward various ways in which people at all levels can become more involved. It addresses the pivotal issue of health in the Third World and argues that it is very much hostage to the globalization of trade by and for the benefit of First World agencies.Trade Review"'Splendid...thorough...balanced...astonishingly accessible...informing and inspiring. Theodore MacDonald writes with passion, as well as with sense. Much of what he has to say is drawn from his own experience working as a medical doctor and a mathematician in a broad range of the world's poorest nations. Overarching that is a powerful insight into social and economic issues, along with well honed skills as a communicator.' Desmond Tutu, in the Foreword"Table of ContentsHealth and poverty. Problems caused by inequities in wealth and by environmental damage. Mortgaging the Third World. The conflict between health and global conflicts: a case study. Finance. Popular opposition to the inequities. Milk and imperialism. The impact of First World wealth on Third World health: British American Tobacco in China. The tobacco impact worldwide. The Third World and HIV/AIDS. Peru - a detailed case study of one Third World country. Cuba - model or monster? Possible routes to global health equity.

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Book SynopsisOfficial publication of Obesity Awareness Week 2006 If only weight didn't matter to young people! But it does - and, in reality, it should. So how can today's youngsters overcome the relentless hype to look like a cool stick insect and combat the enormous pressure from the food industry to eat vast quantities of junk? What can families do to help a teenager that has low self esteem or may even be struggling with an eating disorder? Weight Matters for Young People takes an in depth look at how young people can assume responsibility for their own health, ranging from the various factors that influence teenage decisions right through to practical nutrition. The TOP teen Health Plan assesses the strengths and weaknesses of current lifestyle, whilst the Food Frequency Framework solves family meal dilemmas. Common dieting regimes are assessed to see which are safe or worthwhile, there is a chapter on eating disorders and finally an A to Z of common weight-related conditions. Weight Matters for Young People is a complete reference book that will put young people confidently in charge of their own health. Health workers will find safe, evidence-based nutritional information plus answers to common weight-related queries and plenty of further resources. Trade Review"'Weight Matters for Young People is a complete reference book that can put young people confidently in charge of their own health.' Rachel Pryke, in the Preface"Table of ContentsLooking at things from a young person's viewpoint; Does weight really matter to young people?; Testing time; Parents are no longer in charge of teenage decisions; The role of the food industry and government policy; Nutrition; The 'Top Teen Health Plan'; Nutritional basics for young people; The 'Top Teen Health Plan' family guide; The Food Frequency Framework; Overcoming teenage inertia; Weight and eating problems; All about 'diets'; Eating disorders; An A-Z of conditions that affect weight and eating in young people; Abdominal pain; Colic; Abdominal migraine; Urine infection; Acne; Allergies; Peanut allergy; Egg allergy; Anorexia or loss of appetite; Appendicitis; Coeliac disease; Constipation; Contraception; Depression; Diabetes; Gastroenteritis; Inflammatory conditions of the gut; Irritable bowel syndrome; Polycystic ovaries; Premenstrual syndrome; Teenage pregnancy; Thyroid disorders; Tooth decay; Height and weight charts; Useful websites and addresses.

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Book SynopsisThis 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. It encourages and empowers readers to make changes in the public’s involvement at a local level and explains how this impacts positively on organizational culture. A user-friendly book written in a light and easy-to-read style, it combines theoretical arguments with tried and tested practical applications and features contributions from a wide range of experienced professionals. This is essential reading for every member of the healthcare team. It will be of particular interest to patient and public involvement leads as well as patient advice and liaison service workers, healthcare policy makers and shapers, students and patient groups.Trade Review'The emphasis on people "doing" policy whether they know it or not engages readers in what otherwise could be a dry topic[...]There are many policy books on the market, but none that use this personal narrative, "lived" experience style. The effect is to lure readers into the experience, a great way to learn!' DOODY'S REVIEW SERVICETable of ContentsPart 1: Theory and practice of policy implementation. Service user and career policy, its origins and aims. A further look at factors influencing policy development. ‘You will reach for the stars’ – policy requirements. Part 2: The reality of policy implementation. Rethinking how we interpret service user and career policy. Making policy happen. Telling it like it is. Getting on with the job. Heart of the Trust Scheme. Singing from the same hymn sheet – developing a strategy, structures and systems. And on to policies, protocols, procedures and people. The Human Resource. Part 3: Bringing it together – the ‘lived’ experience. Going the extra mile. Donna’s Story. A rights based approach. A change of heart. Political challenges for the lay representative.

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Book SynopsisHighly Commended in the 2005 BMA Medical Book Competition The Children's National Service Framework sets standards for children's and young people's services, outlining what support should be available to children and their parents in managing and preventing a wide range of conditions and problems. This book is a companion to the Children's (NSF), enabling those that work within the NHS, social care and education to the put the NSF into practice in primary care. Contributions throughout from key professionals who were involved in the evolution of the framework help by providing guidance and expertise from the knowledge and background material gained throughout its development. The authors expand on the vision, themes and goals published within the NSF and make recommendations for the ways that best practice can be implemented, particularly for children's healthcare throughout the UK and anywhere in the Western world. General practitioners, child health specialists, community nurses and anyone with an interest in or responsibility for the care of children in primary care and the interface with social care and education, will find this book invaluable reading.Table of ContentsThe children's NSF and the vision for primary care. Involving children and young people in how we organise healthcare. Getting it right in primary care: creating a child and young person friendly environment. Referring to others from primary care. Working with patients. Supporting parenting - the evidence. Linking health with education priorities through the National Healthy School Standards (NHSS). Promoting a healthy diet and physical activity for children and young people - the evidence. Promoting good mental health and positive self-esteem - the evidence. Implementing good mental health in primary care settings. Effective care for pregnant teenagers. Reducing unintentional injury in children and young people - the evidence. Immunisation in primary care. Child health surveillance. Disabled children. Children with special circumstances: what it means for primary care. Child abuse: what you can do. Listening to young people's perspectives in relation to adolescent health. Children's National Service Framework Vision and Standards.

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Book SynopsisThe 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 practical workbook aims to address how its implementation will work in practice. Written in the interactive Roy Lilley workbook style with think boxes hazard warnings tips and comment boxes it deals with the implications impact and implementation of the New Contract questioning the contract's impact on patients and the provision of services. It is an essential guide for general practitioners primary care managers practice staff and trainers; and for all those that have an involvement in primary care and the implementation of the new contract. GPs practices and PCOs need as much guidance as they can get - from the General Practitioners Committee the NHS Confederation and also from books such as this. The more advice that they can turn to and the earlier they can get the help they need the better. So I welcome Roy's book as a valuable contribution. The book is primarily an informative summary of the contract documents and a practical tool kit for putting the contract into action. I too want to see practice teams making the contract work and this book will help many of them to do so. John Chisholm in the ForewordTrade Review'This book offers an excellent practical approach to addressing the changes needed in clinical record keeping to support improved patient care, clinical governance, better management information and the move towards electronic patient records. It brings together a strong clinical focus with the informatics principles needed to support a successful move to modern record keeping.' Yvonne Baker and Tricia Woodhead, in the ForewordTable of ContentsDefinition of unified patient record. History and context. Integrated care pathways. Elements of a traditional paper record. What is a unified patient record. Multidisciplinary collaboration. Elements of the unified patient record. How does this practice work. Specialist records. Benefits of a unified patient record. The use of evidence-based practice within a patient record. The link between record-keeping and EPR. The uses of information within a patient record. Managing change. Strategies to support change. Raising awareness. Process mapping. Sustaining change. National initiatives to promote change. The tree of change - a model for clinical practice development. Frequently asked questions. Toolkit for the development of a multidisciplinary patient record. Example of a unified patient record.

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Book SynopsisAdverse events in patients caused by medical management are a serious and grossly underreported public health problem. One patient in ten entering hospital will suffer an adverse event of impairment, disability or death. This book is a major comprehensive examination of the incidence and causes of adverse events. Using data obtained from hospitals within the United Kingdom, United States and other developed countries, it examines the risk factors leading to errors, the human and financial costs, and the scope to reduce errors. In particular, it focuses on the need for a critical reappraisal of undergraduate teaching and clinical tuition. All healthcare professionals throughout primary and secondary care, including clinicians, managers and policy makers, and patient and carer groups, can benefit from reading this book. It identifies possible solutions and how adverse events and medication errors can be reduced, resulting in improved patient care.Table of ContentsThe two faces of medicine. The incidence of adverse events, adverse drug reactions and medication errors in hospitals. The incidence of adverse drug-induced events/reactions and medication errors in primary care. The stages at which drug reactions and medication errors occur in hospitals. Types and causes of adverse events and medication errors in hospitals. Risk factors predisposing to adverse events and medication errors. The cost of medical errors. Summary of the problem of injury induced by drugs and medication errors. Errors in healthcare: a major cause for concern. Changes in the UK litigation process as a potent tool to influence errors and complaints. Reducing medical errors. Implications of error reduction for undergraduate teaching. Have the undergraduate course failed to deliver students knowledgeable in pharmacology and therapeutics? Litigation and negligence. Implications for professional and continuing professional aspirations in healthcare. Future directions for professional expertise in healthcare: a conundrum. Conclusions. Appendices.

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Book SynopsisThe 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. All health professionals and those with an interest in medical humanities will find this book valuable reading.Table of ContentsSudden infant deaths: models of health and illness. What are heart attacks? Rethinking some aspects of medical knowledge. Conceptions of persons and dementia. The tradition of the healer. The enduring appeal of the Victorian family doctor. Changing priorities in residential medicine and social services. Contrasting perspectives of inequalities in health and in medical care. The creation of partial patients. The nature and role of medical humanities. Biomedical, humoral and alternative systems of medicine. Reflections on a new medical cosmology.

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Book SynopsisHelping others to learn about caring for people with advanced disease has always been a fundamental part of effective palliative care. This flexible learning material, formally evaluated by the Open University, is based on the Current Learning in Palliative Care (CLIP) worksheets to cover all aspects of palliative care. Easy to use, with activities throughout, they can be reproduced as handouts when presenting to a group, or used individually alongside a tutor, or within a group setting. Each worksheet is carefully structured and assigned a learning level from introductory to advanced, to give the reader an indication of how much experience or knowledge is needed to carry out the exercise. This book provides an essential resource to arm health professionals, carers and teams with the knowledge and skills needed in their daily work.Table of ContentsIntroduction to palliative care. Helping the patient with pain. Helping the patient with symptoms other than pain. Moving the ill patient. Psychological needs. Helping the patient with reduced hydration and nutrition. Procedures in palliative care. Understanding and helping the person with alternative communication. The last hours and days. Bereavement.

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Book SynopsisHigher Professional Education for General Practitioners is a practical guide on the best ways to plan educational and vocational training needs throughout professional practice. It clearly outlines the underlying issues surrounding the introduction of higher professional education (HPE) enabling newly qualified professionals to focus on areas that they feel less competent in, and areas that require additional training. In an easy-to-read format it provides all the necessary information to assist readers undertaking HPE, and for all those setting up educational programmes for newly qualified GPs in the first year after their vocational training scheme.Table of ContentsAn introduction to Higher Professional Education. What do trainers offer that has lasting value? Vocational training: the bits that vocational training doesn't reach. Educational needs assessment. Fit for purpose - CPD. Curriculum planning. Action learning and learning groups. Planning and delivering education and learning. Conclusions.

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Book SynopsisThe quality of cancer and palliative care is going through unprecedented change and development as a result of policy initiatives. The impact of these policies on education is unparalleled and it is essential that clinicians and educationalists are aware of the policy formation processes and educational strategies that meet the demands of these changing times. This book takes a holistic approach to patient care and draws on the diverse experience in hospices and highlights best practice to present a comprehensive and practical guide. However, it does more. New topics are given an educational perspective; those with limited educational experience are given sound advice; the implication of policy change is outlined. This is an important book and one which should be read by all clinicians, educators and managers responsible for improving services in cancer and palliative care. Table of ContentsThe impact of health and social policy on cancer and palliative care education. Clinical governance in 'face to face' and 'on-line space' palliative care education. Public education. Specialist and advanced nursing practice. Post Shipman - the impact on developing education in cancer and palliative care pain management. Death anxiety and death education: a brief analysis of the key issues. Nurses perceptions of spirituality and the implications for nursing care and education. Art and artistry in practice - a reflective account. The role of psycho-neuroimmunology in cancer and palliative care education. Complementary therapies and community nurses - implications for educational planning. Cancer and palliative care - evidence-based practice. Life review - an educational perspective. Humour in cancer and palliative care: an international perspective. An overview of hospice education.

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Book Synopsis Series Editor: Michael Rigby This completely up-to-date resource equips readers with practical tools to understand and apply health economic methods. It introduces the key economic tools and the data available that can assist an economic decision and covers a range of areas from primary care and national data to global indicators of health. The information presented is applicable to all economic issues - at individual practice or nationwide policy level. Harnessing Information for Health Economics Analysis is a vital handbook for all clinicians, managers, and policy makers and shapers who make decisions about planning, commissioning and delivering healthcare. It will also be of great value to health economists, and postgraduate students in health economics and related disciplines. Trade Review"'This book is not a theoretical textbook, but an applied book designed to equip its readers with the practical tools to both understand and apply health economic methods. This book seeks to provide anyone faced with making choices, personal or interpersonal regarding the supply or receipt of health care, with the information to make informed decisions about that health care. It seeks to introduce the reader to the key economic tools and the data available that can assist an economic decision and how to use and interpret such data. Its aim is not to turn the decision maker into a health economist but provide the ability to ask the appropriate questions, understand the relevant data and literature and to access the resources available to them.' Marilyn James and Elizabeth Stokes, in the Introduction"Table of ContentsTechniques of economic appraisal. UK National data. Secondary care data. Primary care data. Organisations providing health economics information. Measuring benefit and preferences. Resources and costs. Reflections and futures.

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Book SynopsisSeries Editors: Moira Stewart, Judith Belle Brown and Thomas R Freeman The application of the patient-centered clinical method has received international recognition. This book introduces and fully examines the patient-centered clinical method and illustrates how it can be applied in primary care. It presents case examples of the many problems encountered in patient-doctor interactions and provides ideas for dealing with these more effectively. It covers a wide range of topics and issues including palliative care, abuse, dying patients, ethical challenges and the role of self-awareness. Many narratives originate from patients' and family members' experiences, providing perspectives of great power and value. The Patient-Centered Care series is of great value to all health professionals, teachers and students in primary care. Table of ContentsIntroduction. Understanding both the patient's disease and illness experience. Understanding the whole person. Finding common ground. Incorporating prevention and health promotion. Enhancing the patient-doctor relationship. Being realistic.

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Book SynopsisJewish patients customarily have particular ways of approaching health and healthcare. This book outlines the Jewish practices and customs of direct relevance to health professionals, illustrated throughout with case histories. Information is provided to facilitate day to day communication, discussing etiquette and interpersonal relationships between the health professionals and their patients, describing in detail the dietary laws, customs and festivals. This book will offer practical advice about Jews, Judaism and the Jewish community helping to educate and enable all healthcare professionals in hospitals and in the community to provide care in a culturally appropriate manner.Trade Review'Easy to read - for anyone seeking an appreciation of Jewish belief and practice in a healthcare context (bearing in mind the wide spectrum of Jewish religious observance and practice referred to earlier), this book will be of value.' Inclusion NewsTable of ContentsPart One: Jews and Judaism. Jewish history - in a nutshell. World and British jewry. The traditional way of life. God the healer. Jewish medical ethics - in a nutshell. Healthcare values. Part Two: The Jewish Patient. Judaism and medical treatment. Caring for the jewish patient on the shabbos and festivals. The dietary laws. Women's health - marriage, sex and related topics. Caring for Jewish patients and at the end of life. Jewish genetic diseases. Jews as patients.

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Book SynopsisSpecifically designed for health visitors, general practitioners, nurses, dietitians and nutritionists, this is the first book to clarify the suggested balance of different foods and food groups needed to provide a healthy diet in infants. It interprets government recommendations and current research to give health professionals completely up-to-date, highly detailed advice in a practical, easy-to-read format. Tables and figures are widely used to illustrate complex concepts and aid understanding. It is ideal as a daily reference. Healthcare policy makers and shapers will also find much of interest to assist in the provision of new guidance.Trade Review'Its content is thought provoking, and it cleverly brings all of the research together, allowing for further reading should the practitioner so wish. One example of the evidence based recommendations the book offers is the identification of beef as a good first food for a child aged 5-7 months once they can take food from a spoon; the research indicated that beef increased a child's zinc intake compared to giving fortified baby cereals as first foods. The book's accessible layout means the first two chapters give a good overview of the weaning process, while the final three chapters break down the dietary requirements into finer detail.' Hannah Marriage, Student Halth Visitor, UK, Journal of Health VisitingTable of ContentsForeword. Preface. About the author. Acknowledgements. List of tables and figures. List of abbreviations. Summary of key facts. When to introduce solids . Key facts. Weaning and complementary feeding. The UK recommendation for introducing solid foods. Evidence relating to the six month exclusive breastfeeding recommendation. Energy and growth. Risk of gastrointestinal infection. Overweight and obesity. Development of allergies. Iron status. Iron status in developed and developing countries. UK infant iron levels at six months. Maternal iron supplementation. Infant iron supplementation. Vitamin D. The recommended age for introduction of solids in different countries. ESPGHAN: no disadvantage of introducing solids at four to six months. References. How to introduce solids. Key facts. Current guidelines. First and early foods. Later foods. Stages. Texture and finger foods. Food groups. Current advice on introducing solids. DH/NHS/Unicef 'Weaning' booklet. NHS 'Birth to five' book. FSA 'Feeding your baby' booklet. NHS/Unicef/DH 'introducing solid foods'. Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Other information sources. Research and advice on introducing solids. Meat as a first food. Milk. Bread. Salt. Gluten. Introduction of solids and potential allergens. Food acceptance. Timing of introduction of solids. Homemade and commercial ready-made complementary foods. Proportion of food from different food groups. Perceptions of a healthy infant diet. Demonstrating feeding skills. Responsive feeding. Baby-led weaning. Introducing solids: summary. References. The dietary requirements of infants. Key facts. Changes in infants' nutritional needs during growth. Energy recommendations. Role of milk in energy provision following the introduction of solids. Fat intake. Dietary fat recommendations in the UK. Dietary fat recommendations in other countries. Fat intake, growth and development. Fat intake and later obesity. Quality of fat intake and cardiovascular health. Essential fatty acids. Suggestions for total fat intake. A conservative suggestion for fat intake in the UK. Recommended intake of omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids. Recommended and suggested saturated fat intake. Body weight. Overweight and obesity. Dietary fibre. Measurement of dietary fibre and recommendations. Fibre intake. Fibre recommendations and suggestions. Benefits of fibre intake. Concerns regarding a high fibre diet. Suggested fibre recommendations for infants in the UK. The recommendations for non-milk extrinsic sugars and starch. The recommendation for protein. The recommendation for iron. The recommendation for iron. Effect of ID and IDA on infant development. Serum ferritin at birth and later risk of ID. Maternal IDA and later infant risk of IDA. Iron status after six months of age: IDA. IDA at eight months. IDA at nine months. IDA at 12 months. Iron status after six months of age: ID. ID at nine months. ID at 12 months. Complementary feeding and iron. Meat and fish. NMES. Commercial infant foods. Milk intake. Fibre intake. Enhancers of non-haem iron absorption. The recommendation for zinc. The recommendation for vitamin A. The recommendation for vitamin D. The recommendation for calcium. The recommendation for iodine. References. Meeting dietary requirements. Key facts. Meeting dietary requirements. Energy recommendations. Suggested fat intake. Amount of solids before fat required. Fat content of foods. Suggested daily intake of fat for infants. Number of tablespoons of food to meet daily fat requirements. Saturated fat. Omega-3 and omega-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids. Long-chain omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids. Fibre intake. Number of portions to provide 0.5 g of fibre. NMES. Iron. Zinc. Common early purees, mashes and baby rice: energy, fat, iron, zinc and fibre. Increasing the energy, fat and iron content of purees and mashes. Vitamin A. Vitamin D. Calcium. Iodine. References . Food intake: food groups and portion sizes. Key facts. Food groups. Number of food groups for infants. Number of portions from each food group. Portion size. Meeting energy requirements: number of portions and portion size. Verifying food group suggestions. Verifying food group suggestions: energy. Verifying food group suggestions: fat. Verifying food group suggestions: fibre. Verifying food group suggestions: energy, fat and fibre. Verifying food group suggestions: iron. Verifying food group suggestions: zinc. Verifying food group suggestions: vitamin A, vitamin D, calcium and iodine. Summary of food group combination information. Progression of complementary feeding by food group combination. Pictorial representation of infant food groups. Pictorial representation of food intake for adults and children: frequency and portion size. Infant guidelines on the frequency of intake of food from different food groups. Updating guidelines on food group frequencies. Suggested pictorial representation of proportional intake from food groups for infants. References. Appendix. Tables. Websites. Index

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Book SynopsisThis third edition of HIMSS' award-winning, bestseller explores how clinicians, patients, and health IT stakeholders are collaborating to support high-value care through health IT. Medical Informatics: An Executive Primer continues to explore information technologies applied in hospital settings, at the physician's office and in patients' homes to provide high-value patient care. Developed for healthcare executives, the book looks at how clinicians, patients and health IT stakeholders are collaborating on a 'team-based,' IT-enabled approach to healthcare.The book's authors offer provider success stories on utilizing health IT-such as EHRs, clinical decision support, telehealth and electronic quality measure reporting to transform healthcare, while addressing health IT usability, interoperability, privacy and security concerns and meeting federal regulations. New to this edition are chapters focused on how health IT innovations, mobile technologies and personal digital tools are demonstrating the value of health IT. Medical Informatics also explores successful EHR implementations by organizations recognized with the HIMSS Nicholas E. Davies Award of Excellence, through case studies focused on patient engagement, population management, clinical and business intelligence, health information exchange and patient readmission prevention.Table of ContentsValue of Health IT: HIMSS Health Information Technology Value Model. Personal Health Engagement. Fostering Innovation in Health IT. mHealth: Transforming the Delivery of Healthcare. Patient-Centered Medical Home. Meaningful Use: Increasing EHR Adoption and Paving the Path Toward Healthcare Transformation. Regional Extension Centers. Ambulatory Systems. Hospital Systems: History and Rationale for Hospital Health IT. Improving Usability through the User-Centered Design Process. Clinical Decision Support. E-Measures. Clinical and Business Intelligence. Nursing Informatics Today and Future Perspectives for Healthcare. Health Information Exchange. Privacy and Security. Software Selection. Project Management and Health IT. Why Do Projects Fail? Case Studies. Appendix: Acronyms Used in This Book.

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Book SynopsisStudy with particular reference to Punjab, India.

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