Health care needs assessment provides information to plan, negotiate and change services for the better, and to improve health in other ways. The first edition of this series established itself as a key source on health care needs for specific conditions supported by the Department of Health. Now in its second edition it provides vital updates taking into account how health care has moved on and how the structure of the UK’s health service has changed. Each of the chapters follows the same structure; each analysing its topic, reviewing the incidence and prevalence, the range of services available, and the effectiveness of those services. It describes the central role and aim of health care needs assessment in the NHS health care reforms and explains the ‘epidemiological approach’ to needs assessment and its effectiveness. Volume 1 includes diabetes mellitus, renal disease, stroke, lower respiratory disease, coronary heart disease, colorectal cancer, cancer of the lung, osteoarthritis affecting the hip and knee, cataract surgery and groin hernia. Volume 2 includes varicose veins and venous ulcers, benign prostatic hyperplasia, severe mental illness, Alzheimer’s disease, alcohol misuse, drug misuse, learning disabilities, community child health services and contraception, induced abortion and fertility services. All health professionals, including policy makers and shapers and those assessing quality of service will find this book an essential resource.
This book provides a new realism in understanding the world of alcohol counselling. It uses dialogue to enable the reader to appreciate the nature of counselling a person with an alcohol problem through the application of person-centred counselling theory. It provides deep insights into what goes on in counselling sessions and how this links into the counsellor's own supervision. It is essential reading for all counselling trainers, supervisors and trainees, provides useful approaches and frameworks for other caring professions, and includes many valuable insights for clients themselves. 'The intention of Radcliffe's new Living Therapy series is to enable the reader to enter imaginatively into the therapeutic processes and thereby to acquire an experiential knowledge which can seldom be obtained through the more conventional text-book. This book succeeds impressively in this aim'- Professor Brian Thorne, Emeritus Professor of Counselling, University of East Anglia and Co-founder, The Norwich Centre 'This book is full of useful information for those working with alcohol problems, on when and how to discuss drinking patterns and on how to convey information on alcohol and its effects.' - Alistair Sutherland, Director, Drug and Alcohol Services, South Staffordshire Healthcare NHS Trust 'This tremendous contribution to professionals working in the addiction field is bound to have an effect in decreasing stigma towards individuals with alcohol problems by the examples and problems so well described by the author in this book. A 'must read' for all professionals counselling persons with alcohol problems!'- Professor Dana Murphy-Parker, Professor of Nursing, Arizona Western College, USA; Chair of the Education Committee for the International Nurses Society on Addictions
