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/decisions/making-decisions
- ambulance – how to use and categories of urgency.docx
- cognitive biases.ppt
- communicating a management plan.doc
- complexity (TEACHING RESOURCE).pdf
- complexity – how doctors think.pdf
- constructs and grids for the consultation.ppt
- deciding for the individual or the population – a story after candide.doc
- deciding what to do – RAPRIOP options.doc
- decision making and safety netting in acute presentations.docx
- diagnostic safety netting.docx
- experts – deciding to use one.ppt
- fast and slow thinking – system 1 and 2 thinking (TEACHING RESOURCE).ppt
- formulating a management plan.doc
- how doctors solve problems.doc
- how doctors think.pdf
- how we make decisions.doc
- illness vs disease.ppt
- microaggressions and therapeutic alliance – exploring our own biases.pdf
- patient management through RAPRIOP.doc
- pattern recognition in the consultation.doc
- pico – asking the right questions in ebm.ppt
- prioritisation – making decisions managing time covey matrix.ppt
- problem solving and achieving goals.doc
- probophilia – making decisions about quality or quantity.pdf
- recommending a strategy.ppt
- six category intervention analysis – facilitating interventions.docx
- six category intervention analysis.docx
- solving problems making decisions and managing crises.docx
- swot analysis form.doc
- swot on 2 sides of A4 plus the form.doc
- the diagnosis cycle and picot.pdf
- when listening is the therapy – the patients lament – hidden key to effective listening.pdf
- when listening is the therapy – the patients lament – turning moaning into therapy.pdf
- when no diagnostic label is applied.doc
- why patients go to doctors.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