How we recruit future healthcare professionals is critically important, as the demand for high quality healthcare increases across the globe.

This book examines the nature of service design and service thinking in healthcare and hospital management.

This book is a point-of-care resource for effective sexual and reproductive healthcare for patients of all ages, sexual orientations, gender identities and medical backgrounds in the primary care setting.

In a new foreword to this edition of The Silent World of Doctor and Patient, Alexander Morgan Capron outlines the changes in medical ethics practice that have occurred since the book was first published in 1984, paying particular attention to the hotly debated issues of physician-assisted suicide and informed consent in managed care.

Provides insights and understanding on how companies and organisations are using advances in IT to adapt to global pandemics such as COVID-19. The book explores how everything from data mining to cloud computing is used for strategic purposes, including competitive advantage and decision making relating to global pandemics.

These essays on health and illness from a sociological perspective, look at health and health models within social and political contexts. They are divided into theoretical and general issues, inequalities in health care, health and aspects of life-course, mental health and alcoholism.

This textbook explains the importance of Allied Health Professionals providing spiritual care and gives applied information on how this can be done. The first book of its kind, it is essential reading for AHPs and students in order to understand how to give holistic and patient centred care.

Statutory and mandatory training is an area that all healthcare organisations are required to tackle, yet it is commonly undertaken as a tick-box exercise without flair or creativity

Change is frequent in healthcare, yet change management is often far from perfect. This book considers the complexity of change within large organisations, explores existing models of change, and emphasises the vital role of emotional and cognitive readiness in successful change management.