Making Clinical Governance Work for You

Contents......Page 4
Forewords......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
About the authors......Page 10
List of abbreviations......Page 11
Part One: Introduction......Page 14
1 What is clinical governance and how does it fit with professional and service development?......Page 16
2 How to do it: identify your service development needs and your associated learning needs......Page 20
3 Use a range of methods to identify your service development and learning needs......Page 24
4 Where do you want to be and how do you get there?......Page 32
5 Setting priorities for developing clinical governance......Page 36
6 You have identified your learning needs – now what?......Page 40
7 Baseline review......Page 42
Part Two: The 14 themes of clinical governance......Page 44
Module 1 Establishing and sustaining a learning culture......Page 46
Module 2 Managing resources and services......Page 62
Module 3 Establishing and disseminating a research and development culture......Page 80
Module 4 Reliable and accurate data......Page 92
Module 5 Evidence-based practice and policy......Page 106
Module 6 Confidentiality......Page 118
Module 7 Health gain......Page 132
Module 8 Coherent teamwork......Page 152
Module 9 Audit and evaluation......Page 166
Module 10 Meaningful patient and public involvement......Page 180
Module 11 Health promotion......Page 196
Module 12 Risk management......Page 208
Module 13 Accountability and performance......Page 220
Module 14 Core requirements......Page 236
Part Three: Quality improvement......Page 252
Challenges of quality improvement......Page 254
Appendix: resources......Page 260
References......Page 264
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H......Page 275
M......Page 276
P......Page 277
T......Page 278
W......Page 279