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Chris Pearce

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PubMed2004

Cost-effectively automating fire door release.

UK care home fire statistics are the worst for 40 years. After catastrophic fires in Scotland and Wales this year the death toll in care homes rose to 18 fatalities over a single month. No larger loss of life in a fire at a care home in Britain has been recorded since regulations covering these homes were introduced in the 1960s. It is against this background of heightened national vigilance that Fireco's Chris Pearce explains, in a timely overview, how the very latest "add-on" automatic fire door release technology can revolutionize integrated fire alarm systems by easing access in the care setting.

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PubMed2003

Cognitive behavioural therapy: a study of rural general practitioners' understanding and expectations.

INTRODUCTION: Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) has been extensively used to manage depression and anxiety. It has been offered to general practitioners (GPs) as a technique suited to primary care. METHODS AND RESULTS: Forty-two GPs, who had participated in workshops on CBT, in rural Victoria, were surveyed about their use, expectations and understanding of CBT. Most of the GPs either occasionally or regularly used CBT. Respondents expressed concern that CBT would lengthen their consultations, while recognising its usefulness in their practice and capacity to enhance doctor-patient communication. CONCLUSIONS: The GPs in this study, while regarding CBT as an appropriate technique in general practice, expressed both broad outcome expectations from its use and concerns about its time management impact. This study indicates the need for further research on the role of CBT in rural general practice.

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PubMed2002

The difficult patient.

A large percentage of any general practitioner's time is taken up by a small number of patients, the 'difficult' patient. These patients often have chronic, painful problems, and are unresponsive to traditional medical methods. By understanding the concepts of the patient centred clinical method, and looking beyond the traditional biological model of disease, an approach to these patients can be developed that is simple and enduring.

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