{"product_id":"9781909470514","title":"Humanising Healthcare: Patterns of Hope for a System Under Strain","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA practical strategy for transforming the UK and other healthcare systems... offering an affordable, sustainable and compassionate alternative to the present mess.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHealthcare systems across the developed world are in trouble.  Changing patterns of disease, an ageing population and advances in drugs and technology feed an inexorable rise in costs outrunning our best efforts to contain them.  \u003cbr\u003eAt a human level the system is coming under intolerable strain.  Demands for cost savings squeeze out the time and humanity needed for good care and quality relationships.  Safety suffers.  Staff become demoralised, stressed and burned out.  \u003cbr\u003eIn the first two parts of\u003cstrong\u003e Humanising Healthcare\u003c\/strong\u003e and focusing on the UK's National Health Service, Dr Hannah explores the fundamental assumptions which have brought us to this point and which likewise inform our current inadequate responses. She dissects the burgeoning regime of regulation and inspection that tries to impose ever tighter controls on a healthcare system that needs to be freed to serve its citizen patients. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn the final part of the book, ‘Another Way Is Possible’, Dr Margaret Hannah offers a practical alternative strategy based on numerous examples of transformative practice from the UK and around the world.   It promises a sustainable culture of healthcare that will enable us all to live healthy, fulfilled lives at a fraction of the current cost. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PublishDrive","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47151527788784,"sku":"9781909470514","price":10.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781909470514_p0.jpg?v=1763623999","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781909470514","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}