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/social-health/benefits-sicknotes-reports
- benefits – a short guide for the gp.pdf
- benefits – DLA and AA detail.pdf
- benefits – dla and aa report filling 2008.pdf
- benefits – dla and aa report filling in detail 2008.pdf
- benefits – dwp medical reports 2016.pdf
- benefits – pip factual report – gp guidance.pdf
- benefits and forms.ppt
- benefits at a glance 2018.doc
- dwp – post op recovery times.doc
- fit note guidance for gps 2018.pdf
- medical certificates tutorial.doc
- medical reports for the gp – faq.pdf
- sick notes (TEACHING RESOURCE).ppt
- sick notes – evidence based recovery times.pdf
- sick notes – getting patients back to work (TEACHING RESOURCE).ppt
- sick notes – guidance.doc
- sick notes – regulations and scenarios (TEACHING RESOURCE).pdf
- sick notes – rules and regulations.pdf
- sick notes – scenarios (TEACHING RESOURCE).pdf
- sick notes – statutory sick pay.doc
- sick notes and worklessness (TEACHING RESOURCE).ppt
- sick or fit note – assessing fitness for work.pdf
- sickness and disability guide.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