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How Four Trusts Took a Practical Approach to Clinical Governance

How Four Trusts Took a Practical Approach to Clinical Governance ORIGINAL ARTICLE How four Trusts took a practical approach to clinical governance Thoreya H. Swage’, Cathy Smith’ and Mary Dune2 PCA Consulting, Surrey, and 2Bournewood Community and Mental Health NHS Trust To enable this process to take place, a programme was BACKGROUND designed to ensure that professionals had an under- Since the introduction of clinical governance in the standing of a range of concepts, including: UK,’ clinical and managerial staff have faced the chal- risk management lenge of how to translate this concept into a reality standard setting that becomes part of everyday practice. The four change management Community and Mental Health Trusts in the Surrey evidence-based practice and Chichester Education Consortium successfully team-working bid for Non Medical Education funding to provide a continuous professional development training programme for staff. This training pro- gramme was multi-disciplinary in its approach to group of five health care professionals who work as clinical governance and was delivered over a period independent consultants (PCA) were successful in of 6 months. their bid to provide this training programme. The The aim of the education programme was to sup- programme was tailor-made to meet the individual port the clinical professionals from specific care groups needs http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Integrated Care Pathways SAGE

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SAGE
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© 2001 SAGE Publications
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1473-2297
DOI
10.1177/147322970100500105
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ORIGINAL ARTICLE How four Trusts took a practical approach to clinical governance Thoreya H. Swage’, Cathy Smith’ and Mary Dune2 PCA Consulting, Surrey, and 2Bournewood Community and Mental Health NHS Trust To enable this process to take place, a programme was BACKGROUND designed to ensure that professionals had an under- Since the introduction of clinical governance in the standing of a range of concepts, including: UK,’ clinical and managerial staff have faced the chal- risk management lenge of how to translate this concept into a reality standard setting that becomes part of everyday practice. The four change management Community and Mental Health Trusts in the Surrey evidence-based practice and Chichester Education Consortium successfully team-working bid for Non Medical Education funding to provide a continuous professional development training programme for staff. This training pro- gramme was multi-disciplinary in its approach to group of five health care professionals who work as clinical governance and was delivered over a period independent consultants (PCA) were successful in of 6 months. their bid to provide this training programme. The The aim of the education programme was to sup- programme was tailor-made to meet the individual port the clinical professionals from specific care groups needs

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Journal of Integrated Care PathwaysSAGE

Published: Apr 1, 2001

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