Clinical governance and best value : meeting the modernisation agenda

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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. First book to put the clinical governance agenda into a practice context Multi-disciplinary - reflects the importance of involving the whole health care team Practical - extensive use of best practice examples, checklists, action points and activities Addresses the six key elements of the clinical governance agenda -. quality, audit, ebp, risk management, accountability, the consumer agenda

Jane ClaytonAlan MaynardPaul RamcharanChristina FunnellRob McSherry and Shirley TaylorKate GerrishCarl ThompsonMarc SaundersSue MerryleesAndy AlaszewskiElaine Morris and Brian Footitt OBEJeanette Thompson and Sharon PickeringIan Graham and Margaret Harrison and Melissa BrouwersAmanda AshtonHelen ChinPhil Glanfield

Contributors	p. vi
Preface	p. viii
Section 1 Political context of care delivery	p. 1
1. Clinical governance and best value: a toolkit for quality	p. 3
2. An economic approach to clinical governance	p. 17
3. Clinical governance and best value: the user perspective	p. 33
4. Service user and professional partnerships in the modernisation agenda	p. 51
Section 2 Developing and implementing best practice	p. 63
5. Developing best practice	p. 65
6. Problem identification	p. 89
7. Finding, appraising and using research evidence in practice	p. 107
8. Audit: the beginning and the end of the change cycle	p. 131
Section 3 Accountability and risk	p. 149
9. Accountability and professional self-regulation	p. 151
10. Risk, clinical governance and best value: restoring confidence in health and social care	p. 171
Section 4 Structured approaches to care delivery	p. 183
11. Structured care	p. 185
12. Integrated care pathways	p. 199
13. Evaluating and adapting practice guidelines for local use: a conceptual framework	p. 213
Section 5 Organisational culture and the change agenda	p. 231
14. Organisational culture	p. 233
15. Achieving change	p. 247
16. Towards sustainable change and improvement	p. 275
Index	p. 293

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