Designed to be of practical use to all those with responsibilities for developing medical audit and quality assurance in primary health care, the book describes what is meant by audit, its purpose and who should be included. It reviews the range of activities being used. The report is based on ...
This is a report on the first year of the Organisational Audit project. It describes the project set up by the Quality Improvement Programme to test the applicability of an 'accreditation' type approach to the UK health system.
This report is a selection of keynote papers and reports from workshops held as part of the King's Fund Primary Health Care Group's conferences on quality in community nursing. The papers describe examples of good practice which concern management structures, staff performance, and ways of identifying patient needs and planning ...
This research report attempts to clarify key issues in British nursing for health policy makers. It is specifically aimed at a non-nursing audience, in the hope that it will illuminate important aspects of workforce planning, management and health care delivery for NHS managers and other people concerned with British health ...
This book describes in detail the routine administrative tasks that have to be done in hospital after a patient dies and suggests systems which will ensure that the tasks are carried out efficiently. It lays down clear standards for bereavement officers and hospital staff to enable them to provide the ...
This book is described as being a 'reflective tour of where the NHS is coming from, the world it is likely to face in the 1990s, and some ways in which we could strengthen it'. It covers demography, social and environmental stress, medical developments, public expenditure constraints, and likely themes ...
This paper explains initially why health authority management should introduce ethnic monitoring systems and deals in later sections with how members and managers should use the data to measure and improve their authority's equal opportunity performance. The bulk of the paper is, however, addressed to personnel and other officers who ...
This second edition reflects the significant growth in quality assurance activity, and an increased willingness to share experience and expertise amongst those involved in the field. The directory covers the 192 DHAs in England, and provides comprehensive data from Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales. It includes a barchart comparing the ...