Prioritising Child Health: Principles and Practice

✍ Scribed by Roulstone

• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 134
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Prioritisation exists throughout healthcare. Difficult and controversial decisions are frequently made at national, local and service level, as well as on an individual basis. However, attention has generally been focused away from the practitioners and service managers who make day-to-day prioritising decisions in order to manage their workloads and deliver front-line services. Focusing on child health contexts, Prioritising Child Health opens up the debate on prioritisation by individuals and explores the issues surrounding their decisions. Grounded in the reality of everyday life, it encourages the reader to make their own judgements about how to prioritise. It will appeal to professionals working in child health, including speech and language therapists, occupational therapists and physiotherapists, as well as nurses, doctors and health visitors.  

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
Tables and Figures......Page 10
Contributors......Page 12
Acknowledgements......Page 14
Part I: Introduction......Page 16
1. Why write about prioritisation?......Page 18
Part II: Prioritisation in action......Page 26
2. Katherine......Page 28
3. James......Page 33
4. Thomas......Page 37
5. A day in the life of a children’s palliative care specialist nurse......Page 40
6. Prioritising paediatric physiotherapy services for children with profound multiple learning difficulties......Page 45
7. Triage in speech and language therapy......Page 50
8. The least first framework......Page 56
Part III: Perspectives from theory......Page 64
9. Thinking: Where to start......Page 66
10. Professional judgement and decision making......Page 78
11. The view from the ‘dismal science’......Page 92
12. Prioritisation: An educationist’s perspective......Page 103
Part IV: Reflections on prioritisation......Page 116
13. Some answers questioned......Page 118
14. Conclusions......Page 129
Index......Page 132