Integrating Care The architecture of the comprehensive health centre By: Justin De Syllas Publisher: Routledge Print ISBN: 9780415608572, 0415608570 eText ISBN: 9781317563624, 131756362X Edition: 1st Pages: 210 Copyright year: 2015 Format: EPUB Available from $ 31.58 USD SKU 9781317563624R90 This book provides a timely review of the contemporary interpretation of the ‘comprehensive health centre’, a building type that was originally advocated by health reformers in the UK in the first half of the twentieth century. The book discusses the development of this idea, the failure under the NHS to apply the idea in practice in the second half of the century and the recent emergence, in all four regions of the UK, of comprehensive health centres providing a wide range of health and social services, often linked to other community facilities. A review of the latest developments in comprehensive health centre design forms the core of the book in the form of detailed case studies of ten exemplary recent projects. Generously illustrated in full colour the case studies include plans, diagrams, photographs and analytical text, providing the reader with detailed information about a range of design approaches. Following devolution, NHS health policies in England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales have begun to diverge and the role of the comprehensive health centre in the current health service of each country is assessed. Aimed at professionals, healthcare facilities providers and policy makers, the book also considers the opportunities for and obstacles facing the further development of the comprehensive health centre as an integral part of the infrastructure of the NHS in the future. Additional ISBNs 9781317563624, 9781317563617, 9781317563631, 131756362X, 1317563611, 1317563638, 9780415608572, 9780415608589, 0415608570, 0415608589 Download eBook Free: https://ouo.io/SPAREQz
