Guide to Education and Training for Primary Care

by Yvonne Carter, Neil Jackson

Overview

'For patients, good quality primary healthcare is of fundamental importance. In order to provide quality care education and training is paramount to professionals in primary care. Yvonne Carter and Neil Jackson have brought together a group of well-known practitioners to help them give an up to date and comprehensive overview of education and training in primary care. Readers will find much here which will help them chart the way forward in their own practice teams in ways which should lead to good results for patients and that enhanced professionalism in practitioners so crucial to their satisfaction and morals.' from the forward by Sir Donald Irvine
With the advent of PCGs/PCTs and a huge government programme of primary care development comes a great need to understand the education and training system, and its relation to other systems in the NHS, ie. service provision and research and development- a 'three systems approach'. The book encourages and facilitates startegic thinking and planning in relation to education and training at various levels including organizatio, team and individual healthcare professional. The Handbook of Education and Training in Primary Care contains up to date information on educational concepts and practice for the benefit of all healthcare professionals in primary care and the wider NHS.
The handbook covers a range of issues paramount to education and training including clinical governance, quality and audit, research methods, clinical effectiveness and evidence-ased primary care. A chapter devoted to learning from patients and coverage of the interface between primary and secondary care make this handbook a unique and valuable resource for all in primary care.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780192632937
Publisher:	OUP Oxford
Publication date:	06/28/2001
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	8.40(w) x 5.40(h) x 0.80(d)

Table of Contents

Foreword, Sir Donald Irvine
Introduction, Neil Jackson and Yvonne Carter
The Education and training system in the NHS, Neil Johnson
Education and training for primary care organisationsInterprofessional and multiprofessional education and training in primary care, Jonathan Burton, Tony Weight and Helen Prentice
Clinical governance and education and training, Mike Primgle and Lesley Southgate
The principles of educational support in prmary care, John Spencer
The principles of assessment, Reed Bowden
Quality, audit and education and training, John Schofield and Neil Jackson
Research methods in medical education, Comfort Osonnaya and Yvonne Cater
Clinical effectiveness and evidence-based primary care, Yvonne Carter and Maggie Falshaw
Information and new technologies, Alex Janieson and Tony Rennison
Higher degrees - their role in education and training for primary care, Amanda Howe
Educational interfgace between primary and secondary care, Michael bannon and Elisabeth Paice
Mentoring in Education and training, Ross Freeman