Modern Guide to GP Consulting

The Modern Guide to GP Consulting:Six S for Success is a straightforwardguide for all healthcare professionalswanting to improve the way theycommunicate with their patients. It provides a highly practicalframework to improve consultations,with a focus on the status, story,summarising, sharing, securing andsanity model. Adopting an open,non-prescriptive approach, theseideologies are easily integrated intodifferent working styles, and patientnarratives illuminate key conceptsand bring the topic to life. The basic fundamental principlescan be applied in daily practiceand Clinical Skills Assessment,enhancing the balance between theanalytical and the intuitive whenconsulting with patients. The ability to listen, think and respondsensitively and effectively are essentialskills for anyone to have, whatever his orher business. In the medical profession, itis vital that these abilities are active at alltimes. To be attuned to the needs, desiresand concerns of others plays a huge rolein managing the well-being of patients,their relatives and their friends. It is crucialthese skills are always at the forefrontof the medic s toolkit. It is all too easy totreat the physical ailments and ignore thepsychological issues that may also be anintegral part of the problems themselves. From the Preface Six S for Success provides a fresh, soundand simple framework to improve theway we communicate with our patients... This book is clear and easy to followin language that all of us understand. Itis an invaluable source of refreshment,inspiration, education and refl ection. I recommend it to all clinicians. Professor Abdol Tavabie, in his Foreword Insight and self-awareness mattermost. This book is a goldmine ofrobust good sense for doctors. Sir Edward Clay, in his Foreword