Gill Wakley

In this book/CD-ROM package, Wakley (Center for Health Policy and Practice, Staffordshire University, UK) and Chambers (Staffordshire University) show how general practice teams can improve their chronic disease management through problem-based learning. Writing from a UK perspective, they focus on the ten clinical fields given quality indicators i.

This book uses examples of clinical audit from around twenty different clinical fields but with particular attention to chronic disease management. It uses a practical 'how-to-do-it' approach which makes the undertaking of clinical audit a positive exercise.

This work includes effective interventions, motivation and influence, adult and child diets, myths and co-existing medical conditions. It provides templates for a personal development plan and for a practice personal and professional development plan.