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Book review: Labours of Love: The Crisis of Care by Madeleine Bunting

open access: yesScottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 2021
Journalist and broadcaster Madeleine Bunting spent five years researching what she calls a 'quiet crisis buried in individual lives' (p.5). The book's page proofs arrived with the author just after the UK had gone into lockdown because of the COVID-19 ...
Graham Connelly
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Targeting exertional breathlessness to improve physical activity: the role of primary care

open access: yesnpj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine, 2021
Primary care physicians (PCPs) play a crucial role in the diagnosis and management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). By working together with patients to target exertional breathlessness and increase physical activity, PCPs have an ...
Miguel Román-Rodríguez   +1 more
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A Nurse Practitioner and Primary Care [PDF]

open access: yesNorth Carolina Medical Journal, 2002
As a nurse practitioner employed by a community health care center, I find that I am able to practice primary care the way I imagined I might when I was a student. The characteristics and needs of the particular population I serve have given me ample opportunities.
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GPs at the Edge: GATE, a qualitative investigation into the experience of delivering care in Irish Rural General Practice

open access: yesRural and Remote Health, 2023
Introduction: Over a third of Irish people live rurally. However, only a fifth of Irish general practices are located in rural communities and longstanding issues such as distance to other health services, professional isolation, and recruitment and ...
Robyn Homeniuk   +3 more
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Training of workplace-based clinical trainers in family medicine, South Africa: Before-and-after evaluation

open access: yesAfrican Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine, 2018
Background: The training of family physicians is a relatively new phenomenon in the district health services of South Africa. There are concerns about the quality of clinical training and the low pass rate in the national examination. Aim: To assess the
Robert Mash   +3 more
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Book review: The Children of Looked After Children: Outcomes, Experiences and Ensuring Meaningful Support to Young Parents In and Leaving Care by Louise Roberts

open access: yesScottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 2022
Published in March 2021, The Children of Looked After Children draws together findings from a four and a half year research study looking at parents in and leaving care in Wales. Funded by Health and Care Research Wales, the research was undertaken by Dr
Emma Young
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Practising person-centred care. Selected abstracts from the virtual 26th WONCA Europe conference, 6–10 July 2021

open access: yesEuropean Journal of General Practice, 2021
Background From 6 to 10 July 2021, WONCA Europe and the Dutch College of General Practitioners as host organiser welcomed 1,266 family physicians/general practitioners, teachers, researchers, and students from 66 countries interested in sharing knowledge,
Jako S. Burgers   +2 more
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Book review: The Criminalisation and Exploitation of Children in Care Multi-Agency Perspectives By Julie Shaw and Sarah Greenhow

open access: yesScottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 2022
The Criminalisation and Exploitation of Children in Care focuses on responses to children and young people in residential and foster care who are at risk of criminalisation and/or exploitation and abuse.
Dan Johnson
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Detecting and preventing financial abuse of older adults: Examining decision making by health, social care and banking professionals [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University.Financial elder abuse is gaining increasing attention from researchers and policy makers.
Davies, Miranda Louise
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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and heart failure: research and clinical practice in primary care

open access: yesItalian Journal of Medicine, 2015
The treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and comorbidities, increasing with age, is the challenge that nowadays health care systems are facing to better care treat these patients. For this reason a clinical trial was conducted in the
Francesco Chiumeo, Stefania Folloni
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