This is the third edition of the Organisational Audit manual. Since 1990 several individual sections of the manual have been revised in order to ensure that the standards remain at the forefront of good practice as well as to reflect the significant changes which have taken place in the organisational ...
The purpose of this manual is to provide a comprehensive set of organisational standards covering the major aspects of an acute general hospital. This will form the basis of a professional peer review (the survey) the aim of which is to support the staff of hospitals in the provision of ...
The aim of this project was to devise a profile which defines some aspects of agreed good practice. It is a tool of management devised by physiotherapy managers within the NHS for their own use. It is a yardstick for the managers to evaluate their own performance. It is a ...
The use of the term "monitoring" in the health service or management context was usually taken to imply the development and establishment of certain standards of performance in a particular field, and a system to examine whether or not those standards had been met. The identification of adequate and realistic ...
Nowhere is there a written set of standards against which what happens within the ward can be judged by those within and without its confines. This study was undertaken to produce a valid framework that would enable nurses to look systematically at the ward and all its activities. It has ...