Healthcare of Young People provides essential practical and useful information to help meet the health needs of adolescents and ties in with the government's teenage pregnancy strategy and initiatives from the Royal College of General Practitioners and the Royal College of Nursing. It covers all the relevant topics including an outline of the major health problems that young people suffer how to manage the common illnesses of adolescence getting it right for teenagers in your practice the role of the primary care nurse and essential issues regarding confidentiality consent and refusal. This book ensures that all members of the practice team can be adequately trained to understand the health needs of adolescents with an emphasis on how to make the practice a friendlier place for them. It contains resources that can be photocopied or used as templates and also includes useful statistics case studies and examples of protocols and guidelines. It is an essential manual for general practitioners nurses practice managers receptionists and all members of the primary healthcare team.