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All GPs undertake the non-NHS work, some of which can add
substantially to practice income. This book describes a wide range
of fee-paying work which GPs are uniquely qualified to undertake;
it shows how opportunities for this work arise and how to become
involved in it. For many, the financial benefits are greatly
enhanced by the professional satisfaction such work brings.
The NHS pension scheme is the largest in Europe. This guide
explains how it works and how to maximize its benefits and avoid
its pitfalls. The book covers: recent changes to the scheme
including new provisions for early retirement; personal pensions,
financial planning and investment options; advice on preparing for
retirement and working after retirement; state benefits; and health
and leisure in retirement. It is written for all NHS staff and
should be of particular value to GPs and salaried doctors.
This title includes Foreword by Sheila Kitzinger, Writer,
Researcher, Activist and Honorary Professor, Wolfson School of
Health Sciences, Thames Valley University. Birth centres are
suitable for every woman whose birth is straightforward, which
accounts for around 75 per cent of all women. This inspirational
guide shows how small scale maternity provision has a profound
clinical and organisational advantage over large scale hospital
provision, including saving of time and money by reducing
intervention rates. It presents the thoughts and feelings of
midwives and patients and how both enjoy the humane and
compassionate care of the birth centre ethos. The book is
invaluable for midwives, obstetricians, doulas, maternity care
assistants and maternity service planners and managers. It also
provides enlightening information for general practitioners and
other health and social care professionals, maternity service users
groups and academics with an interest in midwifery and health
services. "What birth centres do best is simply providing humane
childbirth care. There are no high tech gadgetry, doctors or
dramatic stories of childbirth rescues that make it into the media.
Yet 'miracles' happen inside their walls every day as women have
their babies after normal labours and births. Until now, there have
been very few books detailing what happens in birth centres so that
women and childbirth professionals can be introduced to an
alternative beyond the large hospital model. This book provides a
window in on the birth centre model and there are some exciting
things to find there about childbirth care in the 21st century." -
Denis Walsh, in the Preface. "Denis Walsh has one of the most
incisive, analytical and brilliant minds in nursing and midwifery
research today. He demonstrates the difference between a quality
environment for birth where a woman can create her own 'nest', and
a technocratic, bureaucratically controlled, highly medicalised and
risk-oriented birth culture dominated by the clock, which is most
women's experience today." - Sheila Kitzinger, in the Foreword.
Mental health care needs vary in different groups of people, but
many healthcare professionals have a poor understanding of exactly
how. From ethnicity to sexuality, family to religion, "Mental
Health Care for People of Diverse Backgrounds" is a unique
examination of how cultures can, and should, influence
psychological services. It presents both theoretical and practical
information regarding assessment, diagnosis and treatment.
Concentrating on empirically based treatments, the book fuses
clinical experience and research to give a wide-ranging overview.
It also features many illuminating case studies. It is an
invaluable reference for all mental healthcare professionals
including psychologists, psychiatrists, doctors, social workers,
nurses and counsellors, as well as students and academics with an
interest in mental healthcare. "The information contained in these
chapters is intended for individuals with many levels of clinical
training and is therefore appropriate for trainees in psychology
and psychiatry, as well as experienced mental health providers. The
chapters in this book contain information relevant to assessment,
diagnosis, and treatment of individuals from diverse populations."
- Julia D Buckner, Yezzennya Castro, Jill M Holm-Denoma and Thomas
E Joiner Jr.
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Cleckheaton, Heckmondwike, Liversedge and Gomersal, plus a number
of villages, make up an area known as the Spen Valley. This book,
with over 200 illustrations, mostly from the author's collection of
postcards, covers part of the region's history. In the early 1900s,
the region was fortunate in having several expert photographers who
recorded everyday scenes. Much of their output appeard on
postcards. Using glass plates a darkroom and sheets of photographic
paper with the word 'postcard' on the back, their handiwork was
purchased either for a means of communication of placing in an
album. The work of local Edwardian photographers, including J.
Hodgson of Cleckheaton, features strongly in the book. The images
over an area whose woollen-related industries can be traced back to
domestic sheep rearing on the green and wooded hillsides. The towns
and townships of the Spen Valley reached a heyday in the first
decades of the twentieth century. With photographs of mills, mines,
railways, busy streets and special events, the contents of this
volume are a valuable social comment on a relatively recent period
of history. The pictures are accompanied by the authors'
well-researched text.
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