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/palliative-care
- 2ww Referral Criteria for the Different Cancers.pdf
- Advance Care Planning, LPA and ReSPECT.pptx
- Advanced Care Planning 1.pdf
- Advanced Care Planning 2.pdf
- Advanced Care Planning.pptx
- Advanced Care Plans – top tips for clinicians.pdf
- Bereavement and Mourning – 10 ways to help.pdf
- Bereavement Risk Assessment Tool – BRAT.docx
- Bereavement Risk Assessment Tool – the form.docx
- Bereavement — Understanding Grief and How to Help.pptx
- Complementary & Alternative Therapies in Cancer – in a nutshell.pdf
- Complementary & Alternative Therapies in Cancer Care – the evidence.pdf
- Complementary Therapies in Cancer – the discussion to be had.pdf
- Confusion & Delirium in Advanced Cancer.pdf
- Controlled Drug Prescription Writing.pptx
- Death & Dying Conversations – with audio.ppsx
- Death – When Someone Dies – practical aspects – what next.docx
- Early Detection of Cancer & Auditing.pptx
- Early Diagnosis of Cancer – quality improvement toolkit by RCGP.pdf
- Emergencies in Palliative Care.docx
- Emergency Care Discussion Plans with Terminal Patients.pdf
- Everything in Cancer Care — diagnosis, referral, prevention, screening and more.pptx
- GSF – The UK Primary Care Model.pptx
- Handbook of Palliative Care by Wessex 9th Ed 2019.pdf
- Heart Failure Advanced – Palliative Care Approach.pptx
- Holism – Death & Dying Conversations and Looking After Ourselves.pptx
- Holism – Dying with Dignity – Decision Making, DNACPR & Ethics.pptx
- Holism – Mastering the Art of a Good Death in GP – one change to get it right.pptx
- Holism – Spiritual Needs Assessment.pdf
- Holism – Talking With Cancer Patients.pdf
- Holistic Care in Cancer – the whole person care.pdf
- Home Visits to Dying Patients.docx
- How People Die – the four ways.pptx
- Mouth Cancer – dont miss it.pdf
- Nausea & Vomiting in Palliative Care.pptx
- Opioid Conversion Chart – St Christophers Hospice.pdf
- Opioid Conversion Chart by BAWC.pptx
- Opioid Conversion Chart.doc
- Opioid Conversion Ratios.docx
- Opioid Conversions Chart by Leeds.pdf
- Pain Management and Opioid Conversions.pptx
- Palliative Care – a comprehensive coverage for the newbie.pptx
- Palliative Care – Complete Clinical Management including symptom control.pptx
- Palliative Medicine Core Curriculum.docx
- Patient Leaflet for 2ww Referrals.pdf
- PEPSI-COLA Holistic Monthly Reviews of Palliative Care Patients.docx
- Prognostic Indicator Guidance.pdf
- Prognostic Scores and End of Life Disease Indicators.pdf
- Recognising The Last Year of Life.pdf
- ReSPECT – communication tips.docx
- ReSPECT – core competencies.docx
- ReSPECT – emergency care treatment form – what it is and what it is not.docx
- ReSPECT competencies assessment framework.doc
- ReSPECT competencies.docx
- SR1 for guide – the new DS1500.docx
- Symptom Control on 2 Pages of A4 by Rotherham.pdf
- TEACHING – Cases – Cancer Care Communication Toolkit by London.pdf
- TEACHING – Cases – Terminal Care.docx
- TEACHING – Cases in Pain Management.ppt
- TEACHING – Cases — death, dying and the coroner.docx
- TEACHING – PBL — death and dying.docx
- Terminal Care – agitation.pdf
- Terminal Care – anticipatory drug prescribing.pdf
- Terminal Care – Anticipatory Drugs Prescribing on One Side of A4.docx
- Terminal Care – breathlessness.pdf
- Terminal Care – Nausea & Vomiting.pdf
- Terminal Care – pain control.pdf
- Terminal Care – secretions.pdf
- Terminal Care – symptom control and what can be stopped by Bradford.pdf
- Terminal Care – symptom control in the last 48 hours.pdf
- Terminal Care and Anticipatory Prescribing.pptx
- Top Tips in Palliative Care by MacMillan.pdf
- Top Tips in Palliative Care by Sarah Holmes.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