The NHS reforms placed a requirement on all doctors to improve the quality, effectiveness and efficiency of medical practice by undertaking a regular programme of audit. Through a case study of the introduction of medical audit support staff, this publication documents how this process has been accomplished to date. It ...
This is a collection of short papers based on a seminar to mark the eighty fifth birthday of Sir George Godber. They examine issues of substantial relevance to the present and future of the National Health Service.
This book is aimed at hospital doctors in search of practical ideas for medical audit within their own specialty, but it will also be helpful to other clinical professions to show some of the ideas that have been developed in other specialties. It collates published work and practical experience of ...
This report describes how audit can be made effective. Drawing on the experience of people who have been involved in organising audit in primary care, it suggests how medical audit advisory groups (MAAGs) could help all practitioners to take part in relevant and worthwhile audit. With the help of lively ...
This book develops the idea of managing for quality in general practice. The author examines ways of achieving the highest standards in the delivery of health care. He talks of the theoretical background to quality assurance, of the implications of implementing it in practice, and he outlines ways that GPs ...
Designed to be of practical use to all those with responsibilities for developing medical audit and quality assurance in primary health care, the book describes what is meant by audit, its purpose and who should be included. It reviews the range of activities being used. The report is based on ...
Compiled with the advice and support of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, the Royal College of Physicians of London, and the Medical Defence Union, the objective of the booklet is to provide an explanation of audit and examples of work currently being undertaken, and to provide a guide ...
This briefing paper analyses the management of clinical activity in the NHS. It does so against a background of increasing concern that practices are not always as effective or efficient as is sometimes claimed. The paper considers critically the various policy options that have been put forward for tackling this ...