TY - JOUR AB - Clinical governance is the linchpin of the UK government's quality improvement strategy for the country's National Health Service. Extending quality accreditation programmes from hospitals into the primary care sector — local general practice surgeries — presents a critical set of challenges. In this extract from Accreditation in Primary Care, Nicola Walsh and Kieran Walshe explore how to evaluate accreditation initiatives to assure the quality of primary care. VL - 3 IS - 4 SN - 1368-3047 DO - 10.1108/eb025583 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/eb025583 AU - Walsh Nicola AU - Walshe Kieran PY - 1999 Y1 - 1999/01/01 TI - the evaluation of ACCREDITATION in HEALTHCARE T2 - Measuring Business Excellence PB - MCB UP Ltd SP - 23 EP - 27 Y2 - 2024/04/19 ER -