Clinical Governance in Health Care Practice

Clinical Governance in Health Care Practice

Author: Thoreya Swage

Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann Medical

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780750656818

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The second edition of this successful U.K. book includes more detail on NICE, CHI and other government initiatives. Content is expanded to include information appropriate for the whole of the UK. Additional examples of good practice cover primary care and other specialties.


An Introduction to Clinical Governance and Patient Safety

An Introduction to Clinical Governance and Patient Safety

Author: Elizabeth Haxby

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2010-09-16

Total Pages: 477

ISBN-13: 0191015563

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Clinical Governance is integral to healthcare and all doctors must have an understanding of both basic principles, and how to apply them in daily practice. Within the Clinical Governance framework, patient safety is the top priority for all healthcare organisations, with the prevention of avoidable harm a key goal. Traditionally medical training has concentrated on the acquisition of knowledge and skills related to diagnostic intervention and therapeutic procedures. The need to focus on non-technical aspects of clinical practice, including communication and team working, is now evident; ensuring tomorrow's staff are competent to function effectively in any healthcare facility. This book provides a guide to how healthcare systems work; their structure, regulation and inspection, and key areas including risk management, resource effectiveness and wider aspects of knowledge management. Changing curricula at undergraduate level reflect this, but post-graduate training is lagging behind and does not always equip trainees appropriately for a hectic clinical environment. An Introduction to Clinical Governance and Patient Safety presents a simple overview of clinical governance in context, highlighting important principles required to function effectively in a pressurised healthcare environment. It is presented in short sections based on the original seven pillars of clinical governance. These have been expanded to include the fundamental principles of systems, team working, leadership, accountability, and ownership in healthcare, with examples from everyday practice. This format is designed to facilitate use as a 'pocket guide' which can be dipped into during the working day, as well as for general reading. Examples from all branches of medicine are presented to facilitate understanding. Contributors are taken from a broad base - from junior doctors to internationally recognised experts - ensuring issues are addressed from all perspectives.


Clinical Governance

Clinical Governance

Author: Robert McSherry

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2011-11-18

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 1118276027

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Clinical Governance: A Guide to Implementation for Healthcare Professionals provides a comprehensive overview of what is meant by clinical governance and how it can be implemented in practice. It explores the evolution of clinical governance, its key components, legal implications, the barriers to implementing it, and its impact. Clinical Governance provides step-by-step practical advice, facilitating better understanding of the key principles of clinical governance. This third edition has been fully updated throughout to incorporate a more integrated approach to achieving clinical governance, with an additional chapter on education and training. Each chapter includes reflective questions, activities and case studies taken from clinical practice as well as a full list of references and further reading.


Clinical Effectiveness and Clinical Governance Made Easy

Clinical Effectiveness and Clinical Governance Made Easy

Author: Ruth Chambers

Publisher: Radcliffe Publishing

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 9781846191466

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This text presents a guide to clinical effectiveness and governance. It aims to increase awareness of, and skills in, an evidence-based approach to health care, and there is advice on collecting, evaluating, interpreting and applying evidence.


Understanding Clinical Governance and Quality Assurance

Understanding Clinical Governance and Quality Assurance

Author: Diana Sale

Publisher: Red Globe Press

Published: 2005-08-12

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 9780333985106

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This book enables healthcare professionals to make clinical governance a reality at all levels of a health care organisation. It covers techniques and approaches to support the successful implementation of Clinical Governance, including evidence-based practice, integrated care pathways, clinical risk management and other essential skills such as project management, writing a strategy and facilitating groups. Each chapter is supported with examples of how the theory works in practice.


Improving Healthcare Quality in Europe Characteristics, Effectiveness and Implementation of Different Strategies

Improving Healthcare Quality in Europe Characteristics, Effectiveness and Implementation of Different Strategies

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2019-10-17

Total Pages: 447

ISBN-13: 9264805907

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This volume, developed by the Observatory together with OECD, provides an overall conceptual framework for understanding and applying strategies aimed at improving quality of care. Crucially, it summarizes available evidence on different quality strategies and provides recommendations for their implementation. This book is intended to help policy-makers to understand concepts of quality and to support them to evaluate single strategies and combinations of strategies.


Clinical Governance in General Dental Practice

Clinical Governance in General Dental Practice

Author: Raj Rattan

Publisher: Radcliffe Publishing

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 9781857759358

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Enabling readers to apply clinical governance in their workplace as individuals and as practice teams, this guide emphasizes what individuals and workplace teams can do to identify their own learning needs, and shows how to draw up and prioritize action plans.


Principles for Best Practice in Clinical Audit

Principles for Best Practice in Clinical Audit

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Publisher: Radcliffe Publishing

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 9781857759761

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Clinical audit is at the heart of clinical governance. Provides the mechanisms for reviewing the quality of everyday care provided to patients with common conditions like asthma or diabetes. Builds on a long history of doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals reviewing case notes and seeking ways to serve their patients better. Addresses the quality issues systematically and explicitly, providing reliable information. Can confirm the quality of clinical services and highlight the need for improvement. Provides clear statements of principle about clinical audit in the NHS.


New Principles of Best Practice in Clinical Audit

New Principles of Best Practice in Clinical Audit

Author: Robin Burgess

Publisher: Radcliffe Publishing

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 215

ISBN-13: 1846192218

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This book is essential reading for all those who undertake clinical audit or are training to do so, including health practitioners, managers and commissioners in the NHS. It will also be useful to patients who contribute to audit governance.