Main description:

Key Features:

The only textbook of rural healthcare practice for the UK Reflects the increasing profile of rural healthcare as a dedicated sub-specialty with its own growing body of literature and dedicated university courses
Addresses the key challenges of ensuring effective and sustainable healthcare for those in rural, remote and coastal communities, often exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic
Includes key themes - geographical equity, the trade-offs between access to services and quality of care, hidden rural social exclusion, the role of generalists and the importance of focusing on patient experience
Focuses on the UK experience, but with applicability for those facing similar healthcare challenges internationally

Contents:

Introduction

What is rurality?

Scotland

Republic of Ireland

Northern Ireland

Wales

England

Role of the generalist

Rural diseases

Rural mental health

Animal diseases

Teamwork

Remote healthcare

Emergencies

Rural pharmacy & dispensing

Rural maternity care and family support

Rural nursing

Safeguarding

Technology

Public health

Rural social exclusion

Research

Index