Author Description

This handbook has been written to give general practitioners, hospital doctors and others involved in medical and social care an easily accessible, practical reference on benefits, welfare systems, and services available to patients, an area that is not included in doctors' training. It should complement our clinical medical handbooks. Doctors can give their patients a better service if they are well-informed about the NHS, disability and other benefits available, income and housing benefits, what to do when a patient dies, and many other situations and procedures. Mr Sandell plans to update information on a web site. Adam Sandell is a final-year medical student who is also a local counsellor; he chairs the city's anti-poverty working party, and is also a director of the Oxford Citizen's Advice Bureau.