This useful, practical and informative book should be available to every community nurse for reference and as a model for procedure. The quality of material and design make it a book that will be read again and again. Mollie Kay Miller, Professional Nurse, 1996. The book is readable and well presented, authoritatively accurate and there are no other works around that cover quite the same amount of ground. The book achieves its ambitious intentions and can be recommended to pre-registration students and as a source of reference in the general practitioner'ssurgery. Peter Bradshaw, Journal of Advanced Nursing, 1996. This book is different in that it does provide a strong community focus. It will be of use to experienced community nurses who wish to ensure that their practice is based on sound rationale, and of particular use for community nurse students and pre- registration students on community placements as an orientation to community nursing practice.