Our Books
Some of our books are available directly from Amazon.co.uk, others can be purchased directly from us.
To place an order, click on the Buy Now links below next to the relevant book.
Dr Gray's Walking Cure
Walking is simple, free, and medically by far the best prescription for the 21st century. It is the way mankind has kept fit for purpose ever since evolutionary times.
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The reason why we don’t do it enough is because it has become too easy not to it! Although walking in the countryside is great, it can take significant periods of time. Walking in the course of one’s
daily life does not take much time, and the scenery of the urban street can also be interesting: people are
often more entertaining than sheep!
Price: £9.99
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Coming soon - 20th March 2025
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Cracking Cryptic Crosswords - by Colin Dexter
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This is the last book written by Colin Dexter, the creator of Inspector Morse.
Colin was a prize-winning cryptic crossword setter and solver. He was also a gifted teacher.
He wrote this entertaining and instructive little book in order to help those many people who find the clues in cryptic crosswords too difficult to understand.
Cracking Cryptic Crosswords is a masterful and engaging guide for the would-be cryptic crossword solver.
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Price: £9.99
Oxford Medicine: A Walk Through Nine Centuries - by Dr Eric Sidebottom
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A fascinating profusely illustrated little guide-book for a two hour walk in Oxford round sites with links to medicine.
This takes in sites dating from the twelfth to the twenty-first centuries, including brief histories of medical institutions, breakthroughs, and advances, and the people behind them.
Illustrated on every page with photographs.
Price: £9.99
How to Get Better Value Healthcare - by Sir Muir Gray
4th Edition
Great progress has been made in all health services over the last forty years but these problems remain. One is unwarranted variation in investment, cost and outcome which reveals the other two:
Underuse of high value interventions. This results in
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failure to prevent death and disability which may aggravate
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inequity
Overuse of lower value interventions. This results in
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waste – activity that consumes resources which could give greater value if used for another group of patients, which may also result in
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patient harm
In addition, need and demand are increasing faster than resources, both financial and human. It is therefore essential to focus on value which is broader than, but encompasses, quality, cost effectiveness and efficiency. The concept of value now has four meanings, adopted by the European Union and the G20:
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Personalised Value – how well do the outcome relates to the problem that was bothering them most
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Allocative Value – how well are resources allocated to different populations and sub groups
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Technical Value – how well are resources used for all the people in need in a population.
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Social value – how well does the health service add value to its population
Value based healthcare embraces the paradigms of quality improvement and evidence-based decision-making. Theaim is better value both for individuals and populations.
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Price: £24.99
Population Health Management - by Sir Muir Gray & Maggie Rae
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For decades clinicians and health services have focused on providing high quality care for patients and public health has focused on populations with the aim of preventing disease.
However, these two perspectives need to become one if we are to provide high value care to individuals and populations, and reduce inequity which persists even in countries committed to universal healthcare.
The new paradigm is called population healthcare or population health management to use another term. Everyone paying for or providing healthcare needs to think about the whole population served as well as about those people who reach that services and are treated by it.
Only by taking this perspective can we ensure the optimal use of the resources available, and the time of healthcare staff rather than money is the key finite resource , and indeed the sustainability of universal healthcare.
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Price: £24.99