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/teaching-learning/tutorial-suggestions
- 10 golden rules for general practice.docx
- being therapeutic – laughter as medical therapy.ppt
- being therapeutic – when listening is the therapy – the patients lament – hidden key to effective listening.pdf
- being therapeutic – when listening is the therapy – the patients lament – turning moaning into therapy.pdf
- clinical – clinical examination – is it really necessary (TEACHING RESOURCE).ppt
- clinical – emergencies assessment questionnaire EmAQ.doc
- clinical – spotting the sick child in 3 minutes.doc
- clinical examination as a therapeutic examination.docx
- decisions – cognitive biases.ppt
- decisions – complexity and how doctors think.pdf
- decisions – fast and slow thinking systems.docx
- decisions – how doctors solve problems.docx
- decisions – pattern recognition in the consultation.doc
- decisions – perceptual capacity and the gp.docx
- decisions – prioritising making decisions and managing your time.docx
- decisions – RAPRIOP management options.docx
- decisions – when no diagnostic label is applied.docx
- information technology – using the computer in the consultation.docx
- learning and develoment – core values – what makes you tick.docx
- learning and development – 2 minutes on Educational Change.docx
- learning and development – 2 minutes on Motivation for Learning.docx
- learning and development – feedback – basic principles of.docx
- learning and development – feedback – receiving.docx
- learning and development – keeping clinically up to date – good and bad doctors.doc
- learning and development – learn every day in every way.pdf
- learning and development – motivating values.docx
- learning and development – novels about general practice.docx
- learning and development – personal values – what makes you tick.docx
- learning and development – self actualisation level.docx
- learning and development – self fulfillment – self actualisation index.docx
- learning and development – wheel of life – hows your life currently going.docx
- learning and development – winners and losers – what are you.doc
- mrcgp professional capabilities.docx
- person centred medicine – 5 things all patients want to HAPPEN.ppt
- person centred medicine – 5 things all patients want to KNOW.ppt
- person centred medicine – 5 things all patients want.docx
- person centred medicine – a story (after Candide) – individual vs population medicine.docx
- person centred medicine – being therapeutic by encouraging the narrative thread.docx
- person centred medicine – disease vs illness.docx
- person centred medicine – disease vs illness.ppt
- person centred medicine – how to do it.docx
- person centred medicine – the health belief model.docx
- person centred medicine – triangular thinking in general practice.docx
- person centred medicine – why patients go to the doctor.docx
- politics – how tainted is medicine – the big pharma.doc
- politics – left vs right wing – what does it all mean.doc
- politics – the NHS race.pps
- prescribing – 10 tips for safer prescribing.pdf
- prescribing – high risk medications for causing errors.pdf
- probophilia – quality versus quantity – are we counting the wrong things.pdf
- what makes a good gp – braunack.pdf
- what makes a good gp – leck and leck.pdf
- what makes a good gp – perceptual capacity.doc
- whats a good doctor and how do you make one by rizo et al.docx
- when no diagnostic label is applied by jones et al.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