Making it Happen Myriam Lugon Consultant, Clinical Governance and Healthcare Policy, London, UK Jonathan Secker-Walker Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant, University of Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff, UK £24.95,  978-1-85315-383-9,  222pp,  Paperback,  March 1999 Advancing Clinical Governance

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This practical guide describes all the inter-related elements which make up clinical governance. The contributors highlight good practice and help you to understand the context and to develop systems within your own organisation in order to achieve this. It will be essential for all members of staff to become involved as clinical governance will be the responsibility of managers and clinicians working at all levels within trusts.

This book is recommended to:
clinicians and managers at all levels within trusts, health care purchasers and academics.

Contents:
Introduction; Organisational framework for clinical governance; Patient expectations of clinical governance; Clinical effectiveness and EBM; Clinical audit and clinical governance; Clinical risk management; Claims management; Learning from complaints; The role of the medical director; Legal aspects of clinical governance; Information, data, quality and clinical governance; Integrated care and clinical governance; Guide to sources; Continuous professional development.

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