Humanising Healthcare - Margaret Hannah
Patterns of Hope for a System under Strain
KORTE INHOUD
A practical strategy for transforming the UK and other healthcare systems... offering an affordable, sustainable and compassionate alternative to the present mess. Healthcare systems across the developed world are in trouble. Changing patterns of disease, an ageing population and advances in drugs and technology feed an inexorable rise in costs outrunning our best efforts to contain them. At a human level the system is coming under intolerable strain. Demands for cost savings squeeze out the time and humanity needed for good care and quality relationships. Safety suffers. Staff become demoralised, stressed and burned out. In the first two parts of Humanising Healthcare and focusing on the UK's National Health Service, Dr Hannah explores the fundamental assumptions which have brought us to this point and which likewise inform our current inadequate responses. She dissects the burgeoning regime of regulation and inspection that tries to impose ever tighter controls on a healthcare system that needs to be freed ...
Categorie
Details
2014Uitgever: Triarchy Press Ltd152 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 1909470449ISBN-13: 9781909470446Koop dit boek tweedehands
bij volgende verkopers
1 foto's
[Auteur: Hannah, Margaret] [Pagina's: 144] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: Triarchy Press] [Jaar: 2014] [Titel: Humanising Healthcare. Patterns of Hope for a System Under Strain]
