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 and Wheeze in Children.pptx
- Asthma Spacers – which one for which age.png
- Baby Checks – skills assessment form.doc
- Baby Checks – the NIPE screen.pptx
- Baby Checks and Newborn Examination in Primary Care.pptx
- Behaviour – Sleep problems in Children – for parents.pdf
- Behaviour – Tempers and Tears in Twos and Threes.pdf
- Behaviour – Toddler Taming.pdf
- Behaviour and Emotional Health of the Child.pptx
- Behaviour Problems in Under 5s.ppt
- Bronchiolitis in Babies.pdf
- Childhood Vaccinations in the UK 2026 Schedule.pptx
- Croup in Children.pptx
- croupy child to worry about 2018.pdf
- Decision Making and Safety Netting in Acute Paediatric Presentations.pdf
- Development of One Side of A4 – drawing and writing.doc
- Development of One Side of A4 – fine motor and vision.doc
- Development of One Side of A4 – gross motor.doc
- Development of One Side of A4 – hearing and speech.doc
- Development of One Side of A4 – personal and social.doc
- Developmental Milestone & Developmental Delay.pptx
- Developmental Milestone – the easy way – imagine memorise play.pdf
- Developmental Milestones for Parents.pdf
- Developmental Milestones on 2 sides of A4.pdf
- Enuresis (Bedwetting) in Children.pptx
- Enuresis on One Side of A4.doc
- Feeding Volumes in Babies.docx
- Gastroenteritis in Children.pptx
- gastroenteritis to worry about 2018.pdf
- Growth Assessment of Children.docx
- Growth Assessment of the Child.pptx
- Growth Charts – examples.pdf
- Growth Charts – how to use – boys.pdf
- Growth Charts in Children.pdf
- Infant Mental Health and Health Promotion.pptx
- Infections and Rashes in Childhood.pptx
- infectious and incubation periods of common illnesses.docx
- Infectious Childhood Diseases – summary table.pdf
- Infectious Diseases – Incubation & Infectious Periods & Time Off School.pdf
- Milk Formulas.doc
- Neurological Conditions in Children.pdf
- Newborn – tongue tie.pdf
- Newborn Examination Handbook by Ireland.pdf
- Newborns – congential dislocation hip screening.pdf
- Newborns – jaundice.pdf
- Obesity in Childhood.pptx
- Red Reflex – the importance of.pdf
- Red Reflex Testing & Retinoblastoma.pptx
- Retinoblastoma – would you recognise it.pdf
- Sore Throat and Scoring Tools – FeverPAIN, Centor, STARWAVe.pptx
- Spotting the Sick Child in 3 Minutes.doc
- STARWAVe to predict hospitalisation in infants and children.pdf
- TEACHING – enuresis cases.doc
- The Limping Child — A Primary Care Guide.pptx
- Top Tips in GP Paediatrics.pdf
- vaccinations in children as of 2026.png
- Vital Signs in Children – normal ranges.doc
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