Clinical Governance: A Guide to Implementation for Healthcare Professionals / Edition 3

by Robert McSherry, Paddy Pearce

Overview

Clinical Governance: A Guide to Implementation for Healthcare Professionals provides a comprehensive overview of what is meant by clinical governance and how it can be implemented in practice. It explores the evolution of clinical governance, its key components, legal implications, the barriers to implementing it, and its impact. 

Clinical Governance provides step-by-step practical advice, facilitating better understanding of the key principles of clinical governance. This third edition has been fully updated throughout to incorporate a more integrated approach to achieving clinical governance, with an additional chapter on education and training. Each chapter includes reflective questions, activities and case studies taken from clinical practice as well as a full list of references and further reading.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781444331110
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	10/25/2010
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Robert McSherry is Principal Lecturer in Practice Development at the University of Teeside.

Paddy Pearce is Head of Healthcare Governance at Hambleton and Richmondshire Primary Care Trust.

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Table of Contents

Foreword Professor Sir Liam Donaldson vii

Preface viii

1 Introduction and Background: Clinical Governance and the National Health Service Rob McSherry Paddy Pearce 1

2 What is Clinical Governance? Rob McSherry Paddy Pearce 18

3 A Guide to Clinical Governance Rob McSherry Paddy Pearce 50

4 Applying Clinical Governance in Daily Practice Rob McSherry Paddy Pearce 85

5 Identifying and Exploring the Barriers to the Implementation of Clinical Governance Rob McSherry Paddy Pearce 125

6 Clinical Governance and the Law John Tingle 151

7 The Impact of Clinical Governance in the National Health Service Rob McSherry Paddy Pearce 163

8 Education and Training for Clinical Governance Rob McSherry Paddy Pearce 176

9 Conclusion: The Future of Clinical Governance for Healthcare Professionals 197

Index 201

Editorial Reviews

"This book is a little treasure for anyone wanting to obtain practical, easy to read information about all aspects of clinical governance."
Nursing Times, 2 Oct 2007

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