The GP's Guide to Personal Development Plans, Second Edition - Softcover

Rughani, Amar

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1857754271 ISBN 13: 9781857754278

Publisher: CRC Press, 2001

Synopsis

This work describes an experiment, initiated and supervised by the Hereford and Worcester Family Health Services Authority, in which four volunteer general practices submitted themselves to external review including an appraisal of their services by their patients. This work records the essential experiences and lessons from this example of teamwork between managers and practices in health care. The book focuses on management methods, emphasizing, in particular, the central functions of planning, standard-setting and performance-monitoring to practices which are keen to improve and to move forward at a pace, and in a way, that members of the practice team can handle without feeling pressured or over-worked. The book should appeal both to the clinical and the non-clinical members of the practice team and should also be of interest to those in health services management who are interested in promoting quality in primary health care.

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Review

'PDPs are simply a concept that helps us do what we have always wanted to do - learn effectively, spot our weaknesses before they become problems, and increase our personal satisfaction. This splendid book is readable, reliable and relevant. Amar Rughani shows that PDPs need not be a source of anxiety, but instead offers us a way to build our skills to help us all find a way through the contemporary difficulties of general practice' David Haslam, in the Foreword 'All GPs will find this book helpful' British Journal of Healthcare Management

Synopsis

Revalidation is the process by which doctors will be regularly assessed to determine their fitness to practice. The Personal Development Plan (PDP) will form the cornerstone of this process, and this book is a guide to formulating a PDP. The author employs his perspective as a full-time general practitioner and a GP tutor to show how PDPs can be produced and used, with exercises, advice, examples and straightforward summaries.

Edition details

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1857754271
• ISBN 13: 9781857754278
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 136