Since 1997, the Labour government has made some momentous changes to the way primary care is managed and delivered. The creation of Primary Care Groups, the development of NHS Direct and the implementation of clinical governance will all have an effect on GP services for decades to come. In "What ...
This report summarises a review of the clinical governance baseline assessments prepared by 36 London primary care groups. As every primary care group (PCG) was required to undertake and publish a baseline assessment , they provide insights into the range of approaches being taken to implementing clinical governance.
This pack is designed to help all those people with an interest in, or responsibility for, the development of evidence based practice in line with the clinical governance agenda. It has been drawn together following three years of working with small multi-professional groups and the content was piloted with the ...
This publication is a comprehensive review of health care and policy issues. From 2000, there will be three issues per year. It contains a calendar of events for the months October 1999 to February 2000 as well as discussion of key policy issues. Specific areas dealt with in this issue ...
This paper is for chief executives and clinical governance leads in trusts, policy makers and academics. It simplifies clinical governance as a policy and identifies questions that need answering if policy aims are to be met, reports on the development of clinical governance on the ground and highlights gaps between ...
This document has been produced in response to the enormous growth in activity around and interest relating to the subject of quality in healthcare. As well as the introduction of clinical governance, two new national organisations, the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (N.I.C.E.) and the Commission for Health Improvement (CHImp), ...
The King's Fund Primary Care Programme and the Health Quality Service have collaborated on a project to define standards of good practice for primary care groups in England. The purpose of the standards is to define good practice from inception and to guide primary care groups in developing as effective ...
This new edition of the Health Quality Service accreditation programme has been extensively revised and updated to reflect government health policy and guidance in the various parts of the United Kingdom as well as taking account of changes and developments in quality assurance and improvement programmes nationally and internationally. These ...
The 1997 white paper 'The New NHS: modern, dependable' promised to put quality at the heart of the health service, announcing the formation of a National Institute of Clinical Excellence, a Commission for Health Improvement, evidence based National Service Frameworks, a new system of clinical governance in NHS trusts and ...