This guide is primarily designed for practising nurses who wish to develop their units into nursing development units (NDUs). The introduction explains the purpose of the guide and how it is organised. Team Self-Assessment introduces the key qualities and approaches of NDUs and enables teams to identify at what stage ...
This is the introductory work in the 'Promoting Patient Choice' series. It provides a guide to understanding individual user involvement as well as the wider issue of public involvement in health care decision making. It defines the terms and concepts used and describes the debates and strategies concerned with increasing ...
This book provides an introduction to the concept of evidence-based health care and considers how consumer health information providers might identify and obtain good quality research-based information about health care effectiveness. It explains why there is so much interest in providing people with information about health care effectiveness and involving ...
This report provides a collection of papers and related material from the workshop discussion on 28 June 1996. It includes: a brief introduction; OHP slides used in the four presentations; examples of topic guides for focus groups from SCPR; brief notes from the round table discussions; and details of participants.
This handbook was commissioned by the London Health partnership for use by groups who wish to address a concern about transport. It describes how to make the most of the transport that is available; suggests how to get a local transport scheme started; and provides background information of interest to ...
This toolkit aims to support purchasers and providers who seek to develop culturally competent services. It aims to: enable individual health authorities and trusts to assess how far they have progressed towards cultural competence, and to decide priorities for further action; identify ways of ensuring that the health needs of ...
This conference was organised as part of the process of helping podiatrists to move towards evidence-based practice. It had the specific objective of helping purchasers to define and buy good quality chiropody services. The subjects of presentations at this conference included: why evidence-based clinical decisions are important; evidence-based developments in ...