A comprehensive textbook designed to guide students through the entirety of a Health and Social Care BSc degree. By using a three part structure, it covers the important topics and pressing issues relevant to Health and Social Care today. Starting with the essential areas and core knowledge, through health and social care in practice, and finishing with coverage of the challenges faced in present day health and social care.

This must-have textbook provides wider reading and broad, underpinning knowledge for Level 3 students on a range of courses.

This student textbook matches the mandatory units and key skills of the GNVQ in Health and Social Care qualification, advanced level. This revised edition contains information on key areas. Chapters and sub-chapters match the headings in the AVCE specifications, to ensure students find their way easily through the book. Every chapter contains case studies about real organizations, so that students can see how the theory they are learning is used every day in the real world.

Exactly matched to the Edexcel specifications, this Student Book covers all available units of the Double Award.

The new edition of the best-selling reader Understanding Health and Social Care (previously edited by Maragraet Allot and Martin Robb) combines classic works with newly-commissioned material, offering readers unparalleled coverage of the key issues in health and social care. The breadth of material encompasses voices of service users, professional and lay carers, as well as academics and researchers. This Second Edition is organised into four new sections, each with a part introduction pulling together the main themes: - People focuses on those who use and provide health and social care services. - Places looks at where care is given - Approaches considers different ways through which care takes places - Ideas focuses on the ideas and policies that underpin care provision Full of real practice scenarios and examples, the book successfully makes the links between theory and practice, and will be an essential resource for all students studying at undergraduate level across the wide spectrum of health and social care.

New austerity measures have substantially changed the landscape for social and health care in the United Kingdom. Fully updated to reflect key developments under the New Labour and Coalition governments, this second edition of Understanding Health and Social Care provides an up-to-date guide to the increasingly important partnership between health and social care workers. Jon Glasby combines practical information about welfare systems with key theoretical material to present a complete picture of these overlapping fields.

Understanding the theory which informs practice is an essential requirement of all qualifications in health and social care.This book first appeared as a two volume handbook linked to the NVQ framework. As the sector has made the move from NVQs to the Qualification Credit Framework, people working in health and social care are now working on a wider variety of qualifications including Certificates and Diplomas. The need for an understanding of the theory which relates to health and social care practice is embedded in these qualifications.This book has been revised in line with contemporary social care practice and the wide range of qualifications now in use. It is an essential read for everyone working in the sector.

Take the guesswork out of BTEC assessment with sample student work and assessor feedback for all pass, merit and distinction criteria. By focusing on assessment this compact guide leads students through each pass, merit and distinction criterion by clearly showing them what they are required to do. - Provides a sample student answer for every single pass, merit and distinction criterion, together with detailed assessor's comments on how work can be improved, so that students know exactly what their work needs to show to hit their grade target - Saves you time - realistic model assignments are included and provide an opportunity to generate all evidence, with each criterion and grade clearly indicated, so there is no need to rewrite yet more assignment briefs - Use instead of a textbook - detailed revision-style summaries of all the learning aims from the unit support students, allowing them to quickly find the facts and ideas they will need for their assessment - Enables you to customise your course - combine this guide with others in the series so you only pay for the units you deliver

Exactly what you need for the new AS Level GCEs in Health and Social Care These six student books are matched to every type of AS Level GCE course students can take - whether it is a single award or double award with Edexcel, OCR or AQA. Pitched at just the right level for GCE candidates, with accessible style and content. Written by an experienced author team to give you absolute confidence in the quality of the content. Fully covers all the units students need for either a single or a double award. The Edexcel and OCR books are in full colour.