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The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence website. This site makes available
Appraisals,
Clinical Guidelines, and information on
Clinical Audit.
at The Monash Institute of Public Health in Melbourne has a set of
Research Programs on related subjects, and
links to useful resources.
This downloadable PowerPoint slide show gives an introduction to clinical audit, its relationship to clinical governance, gives basic advice on how to select a topic to audit and gives examples of clinical audits in five areas of pathology - using the service, delivering the service, test procedures, influencing policy and managing risk. From the Royal College of Pathologists.
From the NHS Executive including a booklet which can be downloaded in pdf format.
The WISDOM Centre's collection of resources which address issues in clinical governance.
Contact Help Advice Information Network for Effective Health Care. A contact database for health care professionals interested in clinical effectiveness and evidence based health care.
The Clinical Resource and Audit Group, which is part of the
NHS Quality Improvement Scotland. Includes Scottish guidance on Clinical Effectiveness.
National Clinical Effectiveness Program
Compendium of best available health care evidence
Details of and access to the core programme of work of the Clinical Effectiveness and Evaluation Unit.
This team was set up to help implement and ebed licnical governance in the NHS, and supports the delivery of high quality, patient-centred healthcare that is accountable, systematic and sustainable. Includes
CGST Daily Planet, a daily round up of clinical governance stories in the news.
The Healthcare Commission promotes improvement in the quality of the NHS and independent healthcare and have a statutory duty to assess the performance of healthcare organisations.
Includes Clinical Governance reviews. Also includes the National Clinical Audit Programme is designed to improve patient outcomes.
A short article from Bandolier about this NHSE booklet.
An article from the BMJ.
From
Effective Health Care.
Alerts readers to key evidence about effectiveness in health care.
Provides updates on the effectiveness of important health interventions for practitioners and decision makers in the NHS. Most articles available online. From the University of York.
Education and Quality in Primary Care. Online magazine from North Essex.
A monthly e-bulletin for Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals (ORH) Trust staff, providing news and updates about clinical governance. It aims to bring together snippets of information from a variety of sources. The synopses fall under six headings: Patient Parnership, Guidance, Risk Management, Staffing Issues, Training and Development and General Interest.
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Clinical audit slide show