Medicine & Health

Familiarly known as the 'Orange Guide', Rules and Guidance for Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Distributors 2013 is an essential publication for anyone subject to an MHRA inspection....more

• Published: 15 Oct 2014
• ISBN: 9780857111029
• £55.00

Commonly known as the Red Book, Guidelines for the Blood Transfusion Services in the United Kingdom 8th Edition contains best practice guidelines for all materials produced by the United Kingdom Blood Transfusion Services (UKBTS) for both therapeutic and diagnostic use....more

• Published: 11 Mar 2013
• ISBN: 9780117081673
• £55.00

The report 'National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (HC 782)' is highly critical of the delay in setting out precisely what a value-based pricing system for drugs entails; there is uncertainty about the implications of ...more

• Published: 16 Jan 2013
• ISBN: 9780215052391
• £15.50

The Good Clinical Practice Guide is a brand new publication covering the legislation, guidance and good practice that relates to the conduct of clinical trials of medicinal products for human use in the UK....more

• Published: 24 Sep 2012
• ISBN: 9780117081079
• £45.00

The 2012 USP Dietary Supplements Compendium (DSC) has been significantly updated and expanded into a two-volume set. The new DSC features USP 35-NF 30 standards with information from the Food Chemicals Codex (FCC), Eighth Edition, plus regulatory and industry documents, helpful tools and ...more

• Published: 28 Sep 2012
• ISBN: 9781936424092
• £269.20

This new edition of the Manual of Nutrition describes the major nutrients, their roles and sources, together with mechanisms of digestion and utilisation. It outlines how this links to food and nutrition policy, providing a valuable contribution to the understanding of the role food plays in our health and wellbeing....more

• Published: 11 Jul 2012
• ISBN: 9780113229291
• £16.00

'Government's Alcohol Strategy (HC 132)' reports that the main focus of the alcohol strategy is binge drinking and its consequences for anti-social behaviour; although those are important issues, the health impact of chronic alcohol misuse is ...more

• Published: 19 Jul 2012
• ISBN: 9780215046857
• £20.00

'Sport and Exercise Science and Medicine: Building on the Olympic Legacy to Improve the Nation's Health (HL 33)' reports on sport, exercise science and medicine, and concludes that more must be done to make use of exercise based treatments. ...more

• Published: 18 Jul 2012
• ISBN: 9780108476082
• £11.50

The Health and Social Care Act 2012 requires the Secretary of State to produce an annual report for Parliament setting out how the National Health Service (NHS) in England has performed. The first report was due from 1 April 2013, but ...more

• Published: 04 Jul 2012
• ISBN: 9780101837323
• £16.00

'Education, Training and Workforce Planning (HC 6-I)' concludes that the Government's plans to reform education, training and workforce planning in the National Health Service (NHS) are unclear and lack crucial detail. ...more

• Published: 23 May 2012
• ISBN: 9780215045188
• £14.50

In 2009-10 there were an estimated 3.1 million adults with diabetes in England and this is expected to increase by 23% to 3.8 million by 2020. The Department estimates that it has increased its spending on diabetes services ...more

• Published: 23 May 2012
• ISBN: 9780102977127
• £16.00

'Dietary Referencew Values for Energy' details the evidence and approaches the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition (SACN) have considered in order to update the Dietary reference values (DRVs) for energy. ...more

• Published: 02 May 2012
• ISBN: 9780108511370
• £38.50

WHO's International Classification of Diseases has been fully updated for the third time. Originally published in the early 1990s, this 10th edition (ICD-10) now incorporates all edits and updates up to the end of 2010. In addition, the ...more

• Published: 16 Jan 2012
• ISBN: 9789241548342
• £365.00

'Services For People With Neurological Conditions (HC 1586)' reports that since 2005, when the Department of Health introduced its National Service Framework for Long-term Conditions, people with neurological conditions have had better access to health services; but key indicators of quality - such as the rate ...more

• Published: 16 Dec 2011
• ISBN: 9780102977042
• £16.00

'The Care Quality Commission: Regulating the Quality and Safety of Health and Adult Social Care: Department of Health (HC 1665)' details how the Care Quality Commission had a difficult task in establishing itself, and has not so far ...more

• Published: 02 Dec 2011
• ISBN: 9780102977011
• £16.00

'A Report by the Health Service Ombudsman and the Local Government ...more

• Published: 23 Nov 2011
• ISBN: 9780102975215
• £21.25

'Health at Work - An Independent Review of Sickness Absence (Cm. 8025)' aims to stop as many people as possible from needlessly moving away from work because of ill health, and to find ways of improving the coherence, effectiveness and cost of the system for managing sickness absence. ...more

• Published: 21 Nov 2011
• ISBN: 9780101820523
• £21.25

'Transforming NHS Ambulance Services: Department of Health (HC 1086)' concludes that the current system of measurement in relation to the National Health Service (NHS) ambulance service has not delivered the best value for money to date....more

• Published: 10 Jun 2011
• ISBN: 9780102969719
• £16.00

The key finding of 'Safety First: Mobility of Healthcare Professionals in the EU (HL 201)' is that the Mutual Recognition of Professional Qualifications Directive, which governs the mobility of healthcare professionals within the EU and is currently under review, strikes the wrong balance between allowing healthcare...more

• Published: 19 Oct 2011
• ISBN: 9780108473807
• £11.00

The Health Ombudsman resolved a total of 15,186 complaints about the NHS in England in 2010-11. 'Listening and Learning: the Ombudsman's Review of ...more

• Published: 18 Oct 2011
• ISBN: 9780102975086
• £21.25

'A Statistical Breakdown of Complaints About Primary Care Trusts and Relevant Care Trusts 2010-11 (HC 1523)' is a supplement to the main report 'Listening ...more

• Published: 18 Oct 2011
• ISBN: 9780102975093
• £16.00

'Framework for the Assessment of Children in Need and their Families' provides a framework for analysing, understanding and recording what is happening to children and young people within their families and the wider context of the community in which they live....more

• Published: 14 Oct 2011
• ISBN: 9780113228607
• £95.00