Clinical Governance and Best Value

Meeting the Modernisation Agenda
Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-0-443-07167-6
Verlag: Elsevier Health Sciences

Buch, Englisch, 312 Seiten, Format (B × H): 190 mm x 249 mm, Gewicht: 603 g

A practical handbook for all members of the health care team, showing through extensive use of examples and checklists, how the clinical governance imperatives can be addressed and achieved in order to deliver quality patient-focussed health care.

Zielgruppe

Practising health care professionals including but not limited to nurses, physios and OTs who are involved in implementing ebp in a both acute and community settings.
Managers of the above, particularly related to practice development/quality issues/risk management and the overall clinical governance agenda.
Educators in the above.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pickering, Sharon

Thompson, Jeannette

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Pflege Krankenpflege

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Section 1: Political Context of Health Care Delivery - Clinical Governance and Best Value: A toolkit for quality. An economic approach to clinical governance, Clinical Governance and Best Value: The User perspective. Service user and professional partnerships in the modernization agenda
Section 2: Developing and Implementing Best Practice - Developing best practice, Problem identification. Finding and selecting the evidence. Audit - the beginning and the end of the change cycle.
Section 3: Accountability and Risk - Accountability and professional self-regulation. Risk andclinical governance: restoring confidence in health and social care.
Section 4: Structured Approaches to Care Delivery - Structured care and clinical governance. Integrated care pathways. Evaluating and adapting practice guidelines for local use: a conceptual framework.
Section 5: Organisational Culture and the Change Agenda - Organisational culture. Achieving change. Towards sustainable change and improvement.