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/covid
- anticoagulation during covid 03-2020.pdf
- care and nursing homes – visiting guidance 05-2020.docx
- care homes – digital hub in bradford.pdf
- care homes – immedicare telemedicine rollout GP Brief.pdf
- care homes – the digital hub in bradford intro.pdf
- contraception and LOCAL during corona as per FSRH guidance 05-2020.docx
- corona – understanding how it spreads.mp4
- counselling and psychological support for staff in bradford.pdf
- death certification – bradford coroner message 04-2020.pdf
- death certification – registration 03-2020.pdf
- do not resuscitate DNAR top tips 05-2020.pdf
- elderly – decision making during covid 03-2020.docx
- end of life – community charter.pdf
- end of life drugs during covid 03-2020.pdf
- ent during corona 03-2020.pdf
- frailty top tips during covid 05-2020.pdf
- leaflet for family – caring for your dying relative at home with COVID-19.pdf
- ppe – how to put on and doff off.pdf
- pregnancy infants and children health checks and immunisation.docx
- prescribing top tips during covid 05-2020.pdf
- prognostic indicator guidance – proactive identification guidance GSF 2018.pdf
- red site bradford standard operating procedure.pdf
- redsite – assistGP COVID guide.doc
- redsite contact tracing protocol for infected members of staff.docx
- respiratory triage in primary care – a starting point.docx
- rheumatology guidance during covid 05-2020.docx
- shielding list 10-04-20.docx
- vulnerable patients – role of GP 05-2020.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