Bradford VTS Online Resources:
Patient Safety & Quality of Care
Clinical Governance
path: For LEADERSHIP – see main ONLINE RESOURCES > THE GP IN THE WIDER PROF. ENVIRONMENT/clinical-knowledge/acute-medicine
- a&e core curriculum.doc
- a&e e-learning modules – bradford handbook.pdf
- a&e quick tips.doc
- a&e skills.pdf
- a&e test.pdf
- acute confusional state.pdf
- als.pdf
- ambulance – how to use and categories of urgency.docx
- anaphylaxis -adult and child – checked jan 2023.pdf
- anaphylaxis.pdf
- areterial blood gases.pdf
- asthma acute – adult and children – checked 2023.docx
- basic life support – adult – checked jan 2023.pdf
- basic life support – infant child – checked jan 2023.pdf
- basic life support and defibrillation – adult – checked jan 2023.pdf
- basic life support and defibrillation – pregnant – checked july 2021 (follow this or basic life support adults).pdf
- cardiovascular examination.pdf
- chest pain – suspected MI – checked aug 2023.docx
- chest x-ray reading.pdf
- choking – adult – checked july 2023.pdf
- choking – infant child – checked july 2023.pdf
- doctors bag – ashcroft 2021.docx
- doctors bag – dtb revisits.doc
- doctors bag – dtb.doc
- doctors bag – FAQs.doc
- doctors bag – the city doctor.doc
- doctors bag – the rural doctor.doc
- doctors bag – what to carry.doc
- ecg teaching.pdf
- emergencies in GP not to miss – EmAQ.doc
- emergencies in gp.ppt
- emergency treatment reflection form.doc
- fits – seizures – checked july2023.docx
- general medicine – core curriculum.doc
- head injury.pdf
- home visit protocol.doc
- home visit requests.ppt
- hypoglycaemia – checked july 2023.docx
- neck examination.pdf
- paracetamol overdose.pdf
- pls.pdf
- psychiatric examination.pdf
- syncope.pdf
- trauma -multiple trauma victim.pdf
Clinical governance is “a system through which NHS organisations are accountable for continuously improving the quality of their services and safeguarding high standards of care by creating an environment in which excellence in clinical care will flourish.” (Scally and Donaldson 1998, p.61). Clinical governance is an umbrella term. It covers activities that help sustain and improve high standards of patient care. Doctors may already be familiar with some of these activities, quality and safety improvement, for example. What is different is the effort to bind these activities together and make them more effective. Health care organisations now have a duty to the communities they serve for maintaining the quality and safety of care. Whatever structures, systems and processes an organisation puts in place, it must be able to show evidence that standards are upheld. The Bradford VTS website aims to promote a better understanding of clinical governance with this web resource. It wants to help GP trainees (and trainers) to become more involved with local and national quality improvement projects.
There are 5 key themes of clinical governance.
1. Patient Focus 2. Quality Improvement 3. Staff Focus 4. Leadership 5. Information Focus