Oxford Handbook of Primary Care and Community Nursing (Oxford Medical Publications) - Softcover

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Judy Brook, Senior Lecturer, School of Health Sciences, City, University of London, UK,Caroline McGraw, Lecturer, Division of Health Services Research and Management, School of Health Sciences, City, University of London, UK,Val Thurtle, Senior Lecturer, Division of Nursing, School of Health Sciences, City, University of London, UK

Judy Brook has a background in health visiting and NHS management. She joined City University in 2015 and is a Senior Lecturer in health visiting. She works with the public health nursing team, supporting the education of health visitors, school nurses and district nurses.
Judy currently holds the role of Associate Dean, Partnerships and Placements, a role that supports and develops the clinical practice element of programmes across the School of Health Sciences. Her research focuses on workforce development, nurse and health visitor retention, and how training routes evolve.

Caroline McGraw is a lecturer specialising in district nursing who joined City University London in May 2013.
She initially qualified as an adult general nurse in 1991. She has been working in district nursing practice for over 15 years and completed her Primary Healthcare Nursing PGDip (District Nurse) with Specialist Practitioner Qualification in 2003. Her key interest at doctoral level was in applying conceptual models developed to predict risk and analyse adverse events in secondary care environments to the domiciliary care setting. Her key research interests include medication management with older people living at home, the interface between health and social care in the community, and risk management in domiciliary care settings.

Val Thurtle is is qualified in adult nursing and health visiting. She commenced her career undertaking an integrated programme which led to a nurse and health visiting qualification with a degree in Sociology and Social Administration. She worked as a health visitor and practice teacher in Southampton and Suffolk. She went on to do an MA in Sociology and Health Studies at Essex University and Doctorate in Healthcare at King's College London.
Val has worked at a variety of universities most recently the University of Hertfordshire and she was previously Course Leader for school nursing and health visiting at the University of Reading.