This new edition of the best-selling Minor Illness Manual has been completely revised and updated with the latest clinical guidance and prescribing information, and includes a new chapter on the changing demands of Primary Care. The simple, clear and easy-to-use format enables Primary Care professionals – such as nurses, pharmacists, midwives, doctors, and paramedics – to quickly access the current procedures for dealing with situations they are likely to encounter in their daily practice.

This fully revised third edition provides research-based protocols enabling nurses to manage a wide range of conditions based upon up-to-date research.

This sixth edition of the best-selling The Minor Illness Manual has been completely revised and updated to include the latest clinical guidance and prescribing information, with a reworked introductory chapter reflecting the changing demands of primary care and a new chapter added on COVID-19 and pandemics. The simple, clear and easy-to-use format gives primary care professionals – including doctors, nurses, pharmacists, physician associates and paramedics – speedy access to evidence-based guidance for dealing quickly and appropriately with the wide-ranging situations they are likely to encounter in their daily practice.

An ability to recognise symptoms of serious illness is essential for all front-line professionals in health care. Presented here are the red flag indicators of major disease in need of urgent intervention and the amber flag warnings of a need for urgent assessment. Each is linked to a reason why intervention is required to aid understanding and recall. The Little Book of Red Flags is a practical handbook to help early diagnosis of life-threatening conditions.The authors, Dr Ian Hill-Smith MD MRCP FRCGP and Dr Gina Johnson MB BS MSc MRCGP are highly experienced GP's who run accredited diploma courses in urgent care and are co-authors, along with their colleague Dr Chirag Bakhai, of the best-selling Minor Illness Manual, now in its 5th edition.

The Third Edition of this best-selling book is fully revised, expanded and updated. It provides research-based protocols to enable clinical members of the healthcare team in primary care to manage a wide range of conditions, describes the relevant clinical skills within the limits of safe practice and defines when further referral is needed. The simple, clear and easy to use format enables practice nurses, nurse practitioners, health visitors, midwives, and school nurses to access the current procedures for dealing with the routine situations they are likely to encounter in their daily practic.

The rapid spread of managed care into public and community mental health systems is creating a dramatic transformation of traditional public sector settings. This radical change is affecting administrators, managers, and clinicians.Intended as a survival manual, this book begins with an overview of the history, concepts, ideology, and ethics of public sector managed care and then proceeds in focus from system to program management to clinical program levels. With a concluding section on advocacy, evaluation, research, and training issues, Managed Mental Health Care in the Public Sector examines how public sector managed mental health care can be approached with a positive spirit, an excitement about the potential to create dramatic and beneficial system changes, and a genuine interest in investigating the relative merits of every aspect of managed care systems.