Primary Care in the UK

Policy, Organisation and Management

Stephen Peckham, Mark Exworthy (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

290 Seiten

2002
Red Globe Press (Verlag)
978-0-333-80068-3 (ISBN)

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This important text explores the development and current context of primary care in the UK. Taking a policy perspective it discusses the management and organisation of primary care and analyses contemporary issues and debates such as incorporation and fragmentation, inter-professional working, patient involvement and public health. It is key reading for students on health policy, social policy, nursing, medical and management courses as well as practitioners and managers working in primary care, and other health and social care services.

STEPHEN PECKHAM is Reader in Health Policy at Oxford Brookes University. He is co-author of The Management of Public Involvement in Health Care Purchasing (1998). MARK EXWORTHY is a Research Fellow in the International Centre for Health and Society at University College London. He is co-editor (with Susan Halford) of Professionals and the New Managerialism in the Public Sector (1998).

Preface.- PART ONE Primary Care in the UK: The Context.- Policy Perspectives on Primary Care.- Primary Care: Definitions and Applications in UK Policy.- The Development of Primary Care Policy in the UK.- The Organisation of Primary Care in the UK.- PART TWO Primary Care in Action.- Primary Care Commissioning.- Inter-Professional Working in Primary Care.- Health and Social Care Partnership at the Primary Care Level.- Patients, the Public and Primary Care.- Primary Care and Public Health.- PART THREE Conclusions: Directions for Primary Care.

Zusatzinfo	XVII, 290 p.
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	480 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege ► Pflegemanagement / Qualität / Recht
	Pflege ► Studiengänge ► Pflegewissenschaft
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
ISBN-10	0-333-80068-0 / 0333800680
ISBN-13	978-0-333-80068-3 / 9780333800683
Zustand	Neuware