Book Review

It seems to be en vogue in the publishing world at present to offer up publications which, by design, are intended to provide the reader with the briefest of overviews of a given area of health care. The problem comes when publishers and authors alike attempt to compress ‘health care’ as a whole into the slenderest of volumes and somehow advocate it as delivering a credible overview of something so incredibly diverse and complex. Unfortunately, so it is with this text.

The content may reasonably be promoted as diverse, but with topics ranging from the principles of recruitment and selection to prescribing medications, I struggled to identify the core purpose of the text. To compound matters, to suggest the content offers ‘a glance’ is stretching one's literary licence, as each chapter amounts to little more than one side of text. The diagrammatic content does little to offset this as the use of illustrations is also limited.