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Improving Quality in Healthcare

Questioning the Work for Effective Change

By: Murray Anderson-Wallace,Nick Downham

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Improving Quality in Healthcare

Questioning the Work for Effective Change

By: Murray Anderson-Wallace,Nick Downham

This book is for anyone who is interested in improving quality in healthcare. It will appeal to those who are traditionally responsible for quality matters, as well as practicing clinicians and leaders. Unusually, it will also be as relevant to those who have the keenest interest in the quality of care - interested citizens. It is a deliberate antidote to the anti-intellectual, QI tool driven, mechanistic approach that still dominates much of healthcare quality improvement work. The authors - both of whom have extensive experience of working in and around quality issues in healthcare at a national, regional and local level - challenge such approaches, which they believe fail to take account of patient and organisational context and invite reductionism, cherry picking, atomisation of complex issues, leading ultimately to simplistic and unsustainable outcomes. Key features of the book: · An exploration of some of the often-overlooked and misunderstood core concepts of quality; their history and meaning in a contemporary context. · A framework to "question the work" using four interconnected conceptual domains as a valuable framework to consider improving quality and reducing failure demand. · Critical re-examination of the dominant approaches to change that are frequently adopted in "quality" work, many of which have been rooted in scientific management that have failed to live up to their promise – particularly transformational. · Exploring how an inter-disciplinary perspective can reframe aspects of quality thinking.

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SAGE Publications Limited

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1529786584

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9781529786583

Britain's Pilgrim Places

The first complete guide to every spiritual treasure

By: Guy Hayward,Nick Mayhew-Smith

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Britain's Pilgrim Places

The first complete guide to every spiritual treasure

By: Guy Hayward,Nick Mayhew-Smith

Britain’s Pilgrim Places captures the spirit of 2,000 years of history, heritage and wonder. It is the complete guide to every spiritual treasure, including 500 enchanting holy places throughout England, Wales and Scotland and covers all major pilgrimage routes.

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Heartwood Publishing

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0954476794

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9780954476793

Traffic-Free Cycle Trails South East England

The essential guide to over 100 traffic-free cycling trails in South East England

By: Nick Cotton,Kathy Rogers

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Traffic-Free Cycle Trails South East England

The essential guide to over 100 traffic-free cycling trails in South East England

By: Nick Cotton,Kathy Rogers

Traffic-Free Cycle Trails: South East England by Nick Cotton and Kathy Rogers features over 100 great cycling routes across the South East, London and into Eastern England. A companion guide to Nick Cotton's much-loved and bestselling Traffic-Free Cycle Trails, this guidebook provides an additional fifty routes to discover across the south-east of England – all away from traffic. As well as more off-road trails for gravel bikes and the latest cycle paths, this book also includes a variety of routes on former railway paths, canal towpaths and forest trails, allowing you to discover previously unknown local trails. Presented in an easy-to-use format, this guide includes information on public transport, repairs and bike hire, as well as updated refreshments and parking details. From friends looking for a fun-packed day out on the trails to parents planning safe rides with children, let Traffic-Free Cycle Trails: South East England take the work out of finding your next favourite cycling route.

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Vertebrate Publishing

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183981165X

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9781839811654

Fanged Noumena

Collected Writings 1987-2007

By: Nick Land

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Fanged Noumena

Collected Writings 1987-2007

By: Nick Land

A dizzying trip through the mind(s) of the provocative and influential thinker Nick Land. During the 1990s British philosopher Nick Land's unique work, variously described as “rabid nihilism,” “mad black deleuzianism,” and “cybergothic,” developed perhaps the only rigorous and culturally-engaged escape route out of the malaise of “continental philosophy” —a route that was implacably blocked by the academy. However, Land's work has continued to exert an influence, both through the British “speculative realist” philosophers who studied with him, and through the many cultural producers—writers, artists, musicians, filmmakers—who have been invigorated by his uncompromising and abrasive philosophical vision. Beginning with Land's early radical rereadings of Heidegger, Nietzsche, Kant and Bataille, the volume collects together the papers, talks and articles of the mid-90s—long the subject of rumour and vague legend (including some work which has never previously appeared in print)—in which Land developed his futuristic theory-fiction of cybercapitalism gone amok; and ends with his enigmatic later writings in which Ballardian fictions, poetics, cryptography, anthropology, grammatology and the occult are smeared into unrecognisable hybrids. Fanged Noumena gives a dizzying perspective on the entire trajectory of this provocative and influential thinker's work, and has introduced his unique voice to a new generation of readers.

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678

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MIT Press

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0983216940

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9780983216940

Greater London

The Story of the Suburbs

By: Nick Barratt

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Greater London

The Story of the Suburbs

By: Nick Barratt

London's suburbs may stretch for well over 600 square miles, but in historical accounts of the capital they tend to take something of a back seat. In Greater London, historian Nick Barratt places them firmly centre stage, tracing their journey from hamlets and villages far out in the open countryside to fully fledged urban enclaves, simultaneously demonstrating the crucial role they have played in the creation of today's metropolis. Starting in the first century AD, he shows how the tiny settlements that grew up in the Thames Valley gradually developed, and how they were shaped by their proximity to the city. He describes the spread of the first suburbs beyond the city walls, and traces the ebb and flow of population as people moved in to find jobs or away to escape London's noise and bustle. He charts the transformation wrought by the coming of the railways, the fight to preserve Hampstead Heath, Epping Forest and other green spaces and the struggle to create a London-wide form of government. He gives an account of wartime destruction and peacetime reconstruction, and then brings the story to the present with a description of the very varied nature of today's suburbs and their inhabitants. In the process, he evokes Tudor Hackney and Georgian Hampton, explains why Victorian Battersea and Finchley were so different from one another, and follows Islington's fall from grace and subsequent recovery. Magnificently illustrated throughout with contemporary engravings and photographs, this is the essential history for anyone who has ever lived in London.

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Random House

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1409022544

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9781409022541

Worship For Everyone

Unlocking the Transforming Power of All-Age Worship

By: Nick Drake,Becky Drake

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Worship For Everyone

Unlocking the Transforming Power of All-Age Worship

By: Nick Drake,Becky Drake

Multi-generational worship is important for most church leaders, worship teams, and children's workers - but how can you truly engage everyone so that all age worship can thrive in your church? Worship for Everyone offers an inspiring vision crucial for bringing longevity and life to all age worship as well as a practical guide bursting with ideas and resources. Nick and Becky Drake, pioneers in multi-generational worship ministry, provide a theology for bringing all ages together that draws on their years of experience. Alongside this they give advice and tips on running intergenerational worship sessions and dealing with the many challenges that face the church in producing meaningful all age worship. Worship for Everyone contains all the resources pastors, children's workers and church leaders need to run all age worship services. Service plans, talks, recommended songs, Bible readings and more are all included, so you can make your all age worship engaging and significant for every generation. This is a book for anyone with a heart to see new generations engaging with God.

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SPCK

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0281085889

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9780281085880

The Last Days of Johnny Nunn

By: Nick Triplow

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The Last Days of Johnny Nunn

By: Nick Triplow

Career campaigner Fraser Neal continually clashed with local businessmen, most recently over the council's selling publicly-owned social housing in the Docklands to private developers and displacing vulnerable residents. Until he's found dead in an alley behind Tennessee Fried Chicken's wheelie bins. Neal was also a police informant – or so he said. DS Max Lomax of Special Operations says he wasn't. No one believes him. Max's reluctant inquiries into Fraser's murder take him through the rundown estates, church soup kitchens and graffitied shopfronts of southeast London. He's unaware that his investigation is linked to Johnny Nunn, a former boxer living on the streets, who has given everything to the search for his missing daughter. For five years Johnny has been consumed by a vision of finding his girl and bringing her home, but now he allows himself to be drawn into another family's tragedy. Johnny knows the only beaten man is the one who's stopped fighting. The killers may not.

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Bedford Square Publishers

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1915798450

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9781915798459

Running The World

My World-Record-Breaking Adventure to Run a Marathon in Every Country on Earth

By: Nick Butter

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Running The World

My World-Record-Breaking Adventure to Run a Marathon in Every Country on Earth

By: Nick Butter

Superb - a great book to fuel your wanderlust.' Mark Beaumont 'The ultimate running book, showcasing the ultimate running adventure.' Sean Conway --- In 2019, Nick Butter became the first person to run a marathon in every country on Earth. This is Nick's story of his world record-breaking adventure and the extraordinary people who joined him along the way. On January 6th 2018, Nick Butter tied his laces and stepped out on to an icy pavement in Toronto, where he began to take the first steps of an epic journey that would see him run 196 marathons in every one of the world's 196 countries. Spending almost two years on the road and relying on the kindness of strangers to keep him moving, Nick's odyssey allowed him to travel slowly, on foot, immersing himself in the diverse cultures and customs of his host nations. Running through capital cities and deserts, around islands and through spectacular landscapes, Nick dodges bullets in Guinea-Bissau, crosses battlefields in Syria, survives a wild dog attack in Tunisia and runs around an erupting volcano in Guatemala. Along the way, he is often joined by local supporters and fellow runners, curious children and bemused passers-by. Telling their stories alongside his own, Nick captures the unique spirit of each place he visits and forges a new relationship with the world around him. Running the World captures Nick's journey as he sets three world records and covers over five thousand miles. As he recounts his adventures, he shares his unique perspective on our glorious planet, celebrates the diversity of human experience, and reflects on the overwhelming power of running.

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Random House

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1473567653

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The Long Road Has Many a Turn

By: Nick Scott

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The Long Road Has Many a Turn

By: Nick Scott

In 1983, while still a junior monk, Ajahn Amaro walked the length of England with Nick Scott over a three month period. His account of the walk was published as Tudong – The Long Road North. Twenty-five years later, now an abbot and well known teacher, he and Nick, an ecologist, retraced the journey, visiting many of the places and people they encountered so many years before. This new book is the story of both journeys. Using extracts from the original diary, recordings of conversations that occured along the way and Ajahn Amaro’s photographs, Nick recounts the changes they found and their reflections on them.

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M3C Press

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1739474821

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9781739474829

Africatown

America's Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created

By: Nick Tabor

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Africatown

America's Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created

By: Nick Tabor

An evocative and epic story, Nick Tabor's Africatown charts the fraught history of America from those who were brought here as slaves but nevertheless established a home for themselves and their descendants, a community which often thrived despite persistent racism and environmental pollution. In 1860, a ship called the Clotilda was smuggled through the Alabama Gulf Coast, carrying the last group of enslaved people ever brought to the U.S. from West Africa. Five years later, the shipmates were emancipated, but they had no way of getting back home. Instead they created their own community outside the city of Mobile, where they spoke Yoruba and appointed their own leaders, a story chronicled in Zora Neale Hurston’s Barracoon. That community, Africatown, has endured to the present day, and many of the community residents are the shipmates’ direct descendants. After many decades of neglect and a Jim Crow legal system that targeted the area for industrialization, the community is struggling to survive. Many community members believe the pollution from the heavy industry surrounding their homes has caused a cancer epidemic among residents, and companies are eyeing even more land for development. At the same time, after the discovery of the remains of the Clotilda in the riverbed nearby, a renewed effort is underway to create a living memorial to the community and the lives of the slaves who founded it.

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St. Martin's Press

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1250766559

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9781250766557

Improving Quality in Healthcare

Questioning the Work for Effective Change

By: Murray Anderson-Wallace,Nick Downham

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Improving Quality in Healthcare

Questioning the Work for Effective Change

By: Murray Anderson-Wallace,Nick Downham

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Book's by Nick Downham

Improving Quality in Healthcare

Improving Quality in Healthcare

Britain's Pilgrim Places

Britain's Pilgrim Places

Traffic-Free Cycle Trails South East England

Traffic-Free Cycle Trails South East England

Fanged Noumena

Fanged Noumena

Greater London

Greater London

Worship For Everyone

Worship For Everyone

The Last Days of Johnny Nunn

The Last Days of Johnny Nunn

Running The World

Running The World

The Long Road Has Many a Turn

The Long Road Has Many a Turn

Africatown

Africatown

Improving Quality in Healthcare

Improving Quality in Healthcare

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