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-skills/prescribing
- prescribing-analysis-tools
- 10 tips for safer prescribing.pdf
- analgesia prescribing rationale.doc
- antibiotic coping strategies.pdf
- antibiotic prescribing by PACE bradford.pdf
- antibiotic prescribing.doc
- antibiotics – long term prophylaxis for uti.docx
- anticholinergic drug problem.pdf
- computerised prescribing.doc
- coping with drug side effects.rtf
- cumulative drug toxicity tool for elderly.pdf
- deprescribing antipsychotics in elderly.pdf
- deprescribing benzodiazepines and z drugs in elderly.pdf
- doctors bag – ashcroft 2021.docx
- doctors bag.docx
- dont prescribe these.doc
- drug and vaccine trials and phases.docx
- drug efficacy and NNT.pdf
- drug efficacy NNT table.pdf
- drugs to review – special notes on specific drugs.pdf
- frailty & short life expectancy – identifying.pdf
- health economic analysis of polypharmacy.pdf
- high risk medications for causing errors.pdf
- medication and falls in elderly.pdf
- medication in the frailest adults.pdf
- medication review – 7 steps.pdf
- medication review framework – detailed.pdf
- medication review framework – simple1.pdf
- medication review framework – simple2.pdf
- medication safety.pdf
- medications that are high risk for causing errors.pdf
- mrcgp – prescribing errors and suboptimal prescribing – the PRACtICe study and 100 prescription study.docx
- nocebo effect – example with statins and antidepressants.docx
- nurse prescribing.doc
- opioid conversion chart 2021.pptx
- oxygen equipment guide.pdf
- phamaceutical companies – how tainted is medicine.doc
- pharmaceutical companies and the media.ppt
- pharmaceuticals industry (with slide notes).ppt
- polypharmacy guidance and realistic prescribing manual 2018 – scotland 3rd edition – excellent.pdf
- polypharmacy.pdf
- population vs personal medicine – a story after candide.doc
- practical prescribing – good guidelines.doc
- practical prescribing – medication reviews and repeats.pdf
- practical prescribing – prescription queries.doc
- practical prescribing – repeats acutes dossets.doc
- practice formularies.pdf
- prescribing – sick day rules for elderly.pdf
- prescribing abbreviations and symbols that cause errors.pdf
- prescribing book – chapter 0.pdf
- prescribing book – chapter 1.pdf
- prescribing book – chapter 2.pdf
- prescribing book – chapter 3.pdf
- prescribing book – chapter 4.pdf
- prescribing book – chapter 5.pdf
- prescribing in children.pdf
- prescribing tutorial on 2 sides of A4 (TEACHING RESOURCE).doc
- prescription charges – who pays who doesnt.doc
- prescription writing exercise (TEACHING RESOURCE).doc
- prioritising patients for medication review – potential projects.pdf
- qt prolongation with psychotropic medication – what to do.pdf
- smoking cessation – the clinical bits.docx
- steroid therapy induced hyperglycaemia – management.pdf
- warfarin to doac switching guide.docx
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