Clinical governance in Accident and Emergency services
International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance
ISSN: 0952-6862
Article publication date: 1 November 1999
Abstract
Owing to NHS managers’ preponderance with financial issues, the present Government made improving the quality of health services a statutory requirement in 1997. In this article, one means of improving the quality of health services, clinical governance, is examined in detail before some issues related to its implementation are described. The Trust’s A&E services, the context for interpreting and applying clinical governance, are briefly described before introducing a force‐field analysis that demonstrates the different elements when changing services broadly and clinical governance specifically. The final section concentrates on implementing and improving clinical governance in A&E departments.
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Citation
Ryan, N. and Hurst, K. (1999), "Clinical governance in Accident and Emergency services", International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, Vol. 12 No. 6, pp. 267-271. https://doi.org/10.1108/09526869910291832
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
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