Health and social care in the digital world meeting the challenge for primary care /
Starey, Nigel,
Health and social care in the digital world meeting the challenge for primary care / [electronic resource] : Nigel Starey. - First edition. - 1 online resource
This provocative and timely book examines the current state of primary care practice and outlines a new vision for the delivery of primary care services, primarily in the UK but also internationally. Encouraging a social compact between citizens, governments and the providers of care, the book describes how this will necessitate a redesign of the welfare sector to ensure it is 'fit for purpose' in the digital world. It explores the respective roles of the inverse care law and the rule of halves, systems theory and learning organisations, mutuality and active citizenship, and how these can be applied to improve service delivery. Key Features Offers an alternative approach to thinking and a challenge to leaders within primary care and to those with administrative responsibility for the sector Reflects the multiple challenges facing primary care, including the rise in frail elderly patients, increasing multi-morbidities, the impact of changing demography with migration and much more Sets these challenges in a context of increasing workforce pressures, including changing attitudes to professionalism, burnout and recruitment difficulties Outlines a road map for improvement, responding to current challenges around social care as well as digital/e-health Aimed at, and written for, all those committed to improving the future of the primary care sector in the UK and internationally, this important book will be of interest to students, clinicians, managers, commissioners, policy makers and service users.
9781000052305 1000052303 9781003031079 1003031072 9781000052480 1000052486 9781000052398 1000052397
Great Britain. National Health Service.
MEDICAL / General
Primary health care--Great Britain.
Primary health care.
Public welfare--Great Britain.
Public welfare.
RA418.5.P6
362.1/0425
Health and social care in the digital world meeting the challenge for primary care / [electronic resource] : Nigel Starey. - First edition. - 1 online resource
This provocative and timely book examines the current state of primary care practice and outlines a new vision for the delivery of primary care services, primarily in the UK but also internationally. Encouraging a social compact between citizens, governments and the providers of care, the book describes how this will necessitate a redesign of the welfare sector to ensure it is 'fit for purpose' in the digital world. It explores the respective roles of the inverse care law and the rule of halves, systems theory and learning organisations, mutuality and active citizenship, and how these can be applied to improve service delivery. Key Features Offers an alternative approach to thinking and a challenge to leaders within primary care and to those with administrative responsibility for the sector Reflects the multiple challenges facing primary care, including the rise in frail elderly patients, increasing multi-morbidities, the impact of changing demography with migration and much more Sets these challenges in a context of increasing workforce pressures, including changing attitudes to professionalism, burnout and recruitment difficulties Outlines a road map for improvement, responding to current challenges around social care as well as digital/e-health Aimed at, and written for, all those committed to improving the future of the primary care sector in the UK and internationally, this important book will be of interest to students, clinicians, managers, commissioners, policy makers and service users.
9781000052305 1000052303 9781003031079 1003031072 9781000052480 1000052486 9781000052398 1000052397
Great Britain. National Health Service.
MEDICAL / General
Primary health care--Great Britain.
Primary health care.
Public welfare--Great Britain.
Public welfare.
RA418.5.P6
362.1/0425