Reflects the emphasis on evaluation and audit of clinical care and services provided by individual practitioners, practice teams and Trusts. This work addresses the evolution of systems for monitoring performance in Trusts with the establishment of the Healthcare Commission and the coordination of regulation bodies through Healthcare Concordat.

This detailed guide is a must for medical students preparing for clinical attachment and final exams

This comprehensive fourth edition of Donaldsons' presents the main challenges encountered in managing population health, the tools used to explore these and the strategies to tackle them. This edition focuses on public health in the UK but places this within a new global health context.

This text looks at the various ways in which people of different professions, cultures, religions and philosophical standpoints view death. It covers the hospice movement, euthanasia, living wills and advance directives.

Explores constraints and opportunities for addressing and promoting the sexual health of men. This title redresses the balance between society's traditional views and expectations of men's sexual health, compared to the sexual health of women. It considers various aspects of sexual health, including historic developments and social considerations.

Skills for Communicating with Patients, Third Edition is one of two companion books on improving communication in medicine, which together provide a comprehensive approach to teaching and learning communication skills throughout all levels of medical education in both specialist and family medicine.