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/paediatrics
- asthma spacers – which one for which age.png
- baby check NIPE screen.pptx
- baby checks – 6w baby check.doc
- baby checks – skills to be acquired.doc
- behaviour problems in under 5s.ppt
- bronchiolitis.doc
- child behaviour problems.doc
- childhood infections.pdf
- childhood obesity.pdf
- common childhood infections and rashes.ppt
- croup info.doc
- croupy child to worry about 2018.pdf
- curriculum for paediatrics.doc
- decision making and safety netting in acute presentations.docx
- development – drawing and writing.doc
- development – fine motor and vision.doc
- development – gross motor.doc
- development – hearing and speech.doc
- development – personal and social.doc
- developmental milestones – the easy way – imagine memorise play .pdf
- developmental milestones and what the parent can do.pdf
- developmental milestones.docx
- developmental milestones.pdf
- developmental milestones.png
- enuresis scenario.doc
- enuresis.doc
- feverpain and centor scores.docx
- fraser competence and assessing coercion in relationships.pdf
- gastroenteritis to worry about 2018.pdf
- growth assessment on 2 sides of a4.doc
- growth assessment with slide notes.ppt
- growth chart boys – how to use.pdf
- growth chart examples.pdf
- growth chart notes.pdf
- growth charts – notes on WHO charts.pdf
- infant mental health 2021.pdf
- infant mental health and health promotion.pdf
- infectious and incubation periods of common illnesses.docx
- limping child.pptx
- milk formulas.doc
- mmr controversy.rtf
- neurological conditions in children.docx
- newborn – congential dislocation hip screening.pdf
- newborn – jaundice detected on postnatal ward or in community.pdf
- newborn – tongue tie.pdf
- newborn examination handbook – ireland.pdf
- obesity in children.ppt
- paediatric vital signs – normal ranges.doc
- red reflex – the importance of.pdf
- retinoblastoma – would you recognise it.pdf
- sleep problems in children babies.pdf
- spotting the sick child in 3 minutes.doc
- starwave centor and streptococcal score card tools in children.pdf
- starwave to predict hospitalisation in infants and children.pdf
- tempers and tears in twos and threes.doc
- toddler taming.doc
- top tips paeds.docx
- tutorial topics for child health.doc
- wheezy child to worry about 2017.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