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By Jeanette Henderson and Dorothy Atkinson.
Routledge
£17.99
ISBN 0 415 29868 7

This book focuses on health and social care within a managerial context. It provides a valuable resource that brings together care and management perspectives, acknowledging the significant and influential role of the manager in care provision.

The contributors provide a rich breadth of knowledge, perspectives and debates. Readers will find the material straightforward with helpful introductions and regular summaries. There are also diagrams, pictures and information boxes.

This book tackles managerial dilemmas and responsibilities, demonstrating an appreciation of the diverse and complex tasks facing managers in care environments. By being relevant to practice and work situations, the content provides a significant contribution to debates related to the management of care. A further strength of this book is that the range of topics covered is drawn together with a strong recognition of the importance of the service-user perspective and the challenges of multidisciplinary working.

Managing Care in Context is a relevant, contemporary book for students taking health, social care and management courses; and practitioners and managers, at all levels working in a range of care settings.

Karin Crawford is senior lecturer in social work, Hull School of Health and Social Care, University of Lincoln.