organizations, educational opportunities, and governmental and community resources. The language is clear and directed toward the lay audience, yet much of the information in this concise guide is also of use to the health care worker and agents of social service involved in caring for these patients. The importance of this new book, however, lies in its provision of a ready and complete source...

This paper aims at exploring the characteristics and skills required of mental Health human services workers. An analysis of the vital skills will be presented and the fundamental characteristics such as having a caring heart, patience, compassionate, and driven with the desire to see all people gain the best out of their lives. This is because the success of our lives is driven with having a s...

Successful companies are born of ideas which are able to fill a gap hitherto unprovided for. What started off as an idle discussion abour patients from abroad seeking treatment in the United Kingdom gradually gelled into the proposal to set up a company to arrange high quality medical treatment and at the same time provide a caring service to look after all those potential problems and worries ...

This paper aims at exploring the characteristics and skills required of mental Health human services workers. An analysis of the vital skills will be presented and the fundamental characteristics such as having a caring heart, patience, compassionate, and driven with the desire to see all people gain the best out of their lives. This is because the success of our lives is driven with having a s...

Caring for elderly patients and their families at the end of life gives physicians the opportunity to have a meaningful impact on the lives of others. By expanding our clinical expertise beyond the arena of cure and the preservation of life, we can discover new ways to encounter our patients as full human beings and to share a profound life passage that many of us might otherwise ignore. The sk...

This article reports on a pilot vocational study programme for provision of antenatal services in the general practice environment. The concurrent evaluation study assessed practice nurses' experiences of undertaking the pilot programme, the level and applicability of the content, and the mode of delivery. General practitioners' understanding of the role of the nurse in providing antenatal serv...

The British National Health Service (NHS) before its 1990s internal-market reforms was a gridlock of perverse incentives. The internal market, an attempt to introduce some market incentives, stimulated much innovation in primary care commissioning and practice improvement and led to increased efficiency. However, its effects were quite limited, because the essential conditions for a market to o...