Integrating Primary Health Care: Leading, Managing, Facilitating

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Paul Thomas , Professor of Primary Care Research, Education and Development, Centre for the Study of Policy and Practice in Health and Social Care, Faculty of Health and Human Sciences, Thames Valley University, Ealing, London Foreword by Kurt Stange and David Colin-Thome , Editor, Annals of Family Medicine, and Director, Family Medicine Research Division, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA; National Clinical Director for Primary Care, Part-time GP, and Honorary Visiting Professor , Manchester Centre for Healthcare Management, Manchester University IN PRODUCTION - due to be published in March 2006 Contents Mapping the territory New ways of thinking about leadership The extraordinary potential of primary care organisations Developing your leadership skills Moving the story forward Helping people to inquire and learn together Infrastructure that facilitates ongoing learning and change Having the right information at the right time Looking after yourself Theories of integration What can we learn from >comprehensive primary health care"? Where is general practice heading? Towards an integrated theory of knowledge Towards an integrated theory of health Reconciling linear and systems thinking Techniques that integrate linear and systems thinking Mapping the system of concern Whole system events Facilitating learning in groups Seeing things through different eyes Interviewing for team players