Guidelines for Authors

Clinical Governance Bulletin is a publication for clinicians and managers working in trusts, health authorities and PCGs, and aims to communicate practical examples, pool shared experience and highlight and disseminate best practice on a broad range of issues in health management. It is published bimonthly by The Royal Society of Medicine Press, London, in both print and electronic form. Examples of topics covered include:

Patient experience
Risk management
Clinical effectiveness
Effective strategy
Clinical information
Knowledge management
Communication
Effective teamwork
Resource effectiveness
Clinical errors
Complaints
Clinical audit

The audience is predominantly practising clinicians and managers, so please make your article as practical and relevant to everyday practice as possible.

Length: 500 – 800 words plus a maximum of 5 references in Vancouver (numerical) style.

Illustrations: where appropriate, use tables, charts, summary boxes etc to present information, and to break up the text.

Web links: where possible, provide web and/or email addresses for further information – e.g. Department of Health reports or circulars, publications, societies, etc.

Presentation and submission: On the first page include the article title and author names and addresses (including email addresses); please also indicate which author is responsible for correspondence about the article and proofs. Start the article with 3-5 brief bullet points summarising the key lessons learned. Use plain, unjustified text throughout, with subheadings in bold upper and lower case. Please send your contribution, by email (or by post with floppy disk), to: Dr Myriam Lugon, Editor, Clinical Governance Bulletin, email: Mlugon@compuserve.com (or by post c/o Royal Society of Medicine Press Limited, 1 Wimpole Street, London W1G 0AE).

Copyright: The principal author of each article accepted for publication will be required to assign copyright in their article to Royal Society of Medicine Press, and a form for this purpose will be sent with the proof.

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