The NHS handbook 2012/13: The essential guide to the new NHS

by PeterDavies (Author)

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  Paperback
  2012

  $3.29

  The Health and Social Care Bill received royal assent in March 2012 leading to significant changes in the way NHS services are commissioned and provided. The latest edition of this popular guide has been fully revised and updated to help you make sense of these changes. Written in clear and concise language the handbook is comprehensive and easy to use. Contents of this title include: the new structure of the NHS in England; commissioning; providing services; policy and strategy: creating a 'vision' for the NHS; quality and safety; accountability and regulation; financing the NHS Staffing and human resources; evidence, research and development; information technology; the NHS in Scotland; the NHS in Wales; the NHS in Northern Ireland; the NHS in Europe; and, acronym buster 248. How can The NHS handbook help you? However you work within, alongside or in conjunction with the NHS, whatever your interest in the health service, this timely guide will help you keep up with the change to the NHS. Clinical and non-clinical leaders: gain insight into how the changes will affect your work. New to the NHS? Build on your knowledge of how the health service fits together. Partners and suppliers: access information you need to make the most of your relationships within the NHS.