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Clinical governance is a systematic approach to maintaining and improving the quality of patient care within the National Health Service (NHS) and private sector health care. Clinical governance became important in health care after the Bristol heart scandal in 1995, during which an anaesthetist, Dr Stephen Bolsin , exposed the high mortality ...
Seven key principles guide the NHS. [16] [17] The NHS provides a comprehensive service, available to all; Access to NHS services is based on clinical need, not an individual's ability to pay; The NHS aspires to the highest standards of excellence and professionalism; The patient will be at the heart of everything the NHS does
The NHS Constitution for England is a document that sets out objectives of the National Health Service, rights and responsibilities of the various parties involved in health care, (staff, trust board, patients' rights and responsibilities) and the guiding principles which govern the service. [1]
NHS Executive, Promoting clinical effectiveness. A framework for action in and through the NHS. London: NHS Executive, 1996; National Institute of Clinical Excellence, Principles of Best Practice in Clinical Audit. London: NICE, 2002 ISBN 1-85775-976-1; Swage T.; Clinical governance in health care practice. Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2000
When the white paper was presented to Parliament, the Secretary of State for Health, Andrew Lansley, told MPs of three key principles: patients at the centre of the NHS; changing the emphasis of measurement to clinical outcomes; empowering health professionals, in particular GPs. The white paper set out a timetable. By April 2012 it proposed to:
Person-centred care is a concept used in the United Kingdom by Skills for Health, in their 2017 framework; by the Health Foundation, set out in their 2016 "quick guide"; by the Social Care Institute for Excellence; by the Royal College of General Practitioners and NHS England, who have developed a Person-Centred Care toolkit; by the Health ...
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The Caldicott Committee's Report on the Review of Patient-Identifiable Information, usually referred to as the Caldicott Report, was a review commissioned in 1997 by the Chief Medical Officer of England due to increasing worries concerning the use of patient information in the National Health Service (NHS) in England and Wales and the need to avoid the undermining of confidentiality because of ...