Regulating Complementary Medical Practitioners: An international review March 20, 2008
Posted by western4uk in Clinical Governance, Complementary Therapies, Grey Literature, Standards.Tags: Clinical Governance, Complementary Therapies, Grey Literature, Professional Discipline, Registration, Regulation, Standards
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In Regulating Complementary Medical Practitioners: An international review from the King’s Fund , the experiences of 16 countries considers the registration of complementary practititioners in response to the World Health Organization recommendation that governments develop national policies that include regulation of practice, education, training and licensing.
Breast Cancer Services In Trafford And North Manchester - The Baker Report March 19, 2008
Posted by western4uk in Breast Cancer, Clinical Governance, Diagnosis, Grey Literature.Tags: Breast Cancer, Clinical Governance, Diagnosis, Grey Literature, Treatment
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Breast Cancer Services In Trafford And North Manchester: An Investigation Into The Circumstances Surrounding A Serious Clinical Incident In Symptomatic Breast Services - The Baker Report explains the reasons behind the misreading of mammograms by a consultant radiologist at Trafford and North Manchester General hospitals between April 2003 and April 2005.
As part of the investigation into the incident, over 150 women were recalled to check their diagnosis and treatment. Eighteen women had a delayed diagnosis of more than 3 months, which experts believe is significant – 14 were from Trafford and 4 were from North Manchester.
Response to the Health Select Committee’s First Report of Session 2007-08 on the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence March 6, 2008
Posted by western4uk in Clinical Governance, Evidence Based Practice, Grey Literature, Quality, Risk Evaluation.Tags: Clinical Governance, Evidence Based Practice, Grey Literature, Quality
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The Government’s Response to the Health Select Committee’s First Report of Session 2007-08 on the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence sets out the Government’s response to the Health Select Committee’s report on the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE). It welcomes and endorses the Committee’s expression of support for and confidence in NICE. Separate reports by the World Health Organisation on NICE’s technology appraisal and clinical guidelines programmes have commended the way in which it discharges its vital responsibilities.
Clinical Risk Volume 14, Number 1, January 2008 March 2, 2008
Posted by western4uk in Access from Home, Access from Work, E-Journals, Electronic Resources.Tags: Clinical Governance, E-Journals, Jurisprudence, Risk Management
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The new issue of Clinical Risk is now available online. If you want to access the full text of the journal you’ll need your Athens password from the NHS (at the moment you’ll need one from a primary care trust in the North West of England. If you don’t have an Athens password and are eligible you can get one here).
Risk management
pp. 4-7(4)
Authors: Smith, Andrea; Kinross, James; Bailey, Martin; Aggarwal, Rajesh; Toresen, David; Vincent, Charles
Organizational learning
pp. 8-13(6)
Authors: Claridge, Tanya; Cook, Gary; Hale, Richard
Safe practice
Personal view
pp. 18-20(3)
Author: Astill, Duncan
AvMA Medical & Legal Journal
pp. 32-32(1)
pp. 33-35(3)
pp. 35-36(2)
Healthcare and Law Digest
pp. 39-41(3)
Author: Hodgetts, Tim
Health and Social Care Bill 2007-08 February 18, 2008
Posted by western4uk in Clinical Governance, Legislation, Medical Staff, NHS, Professional Discipline, Public Health, Quality, Regulation, Social Services.Tags: Clinical Governance, Legislation, Professional Discipline, Regulation
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The Health and Social Care Bill 2007-08 has it’s third reading today. The Bill aims to enhance professional regulation and create a new integrated regulator, the Care Quality Commission, for health and adult social care. This body will provide assurance about the safety and quality of care for patients and service users.
- Assures the safety and quality of care and creates a new regulator, the Care Quality Commission
- Equips the new regulator with tougher powers, backed by fines, to inspect, investigate and intervene where hospitals are failing to meet hygiene standards
- Strengthens clinical governance and reforms the system of professional regulation to ensure it earns and sustains the confidence of patients, professionals and Parliament
- Extends financial support to mothers-to-be from the 29th week of pregnancy
- Ensures all healthcare professional regulatory bodies use the civil, rather than criminal, standard of proof
- Creates an independent adjudicator to undertake independent and objective formal adjudication for the professional regulatory bodies
- Ensures that all healthcare organisations employing or contracting with doctors appoint a ‘responsible officer’ to work with the GMC to identify and handle cases of poor professional performance by doctors
- Updates the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984 with the aim of providing a more effective and proportionate response to infectious disease.
Good Medical Practice in Action - E-Learning from the GMC February 13, 2008
Posted by western4uk in Advertising, Clinical Governance, E-Learning, Ethics, Mass Media, Medical Staff, Quality, Whistleblowing.Tags: Advertising, Clinical Governance, Communication, E-Learning, Ethics, Professional Discipline, Whistleblowing
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The GMC has producted an interactive web resource for its Good Medical Practice guidance. Good Medical Practice in Action opens with four patients in a waiting room and users can click on each patient to watch and listen to their consultation with a doctor. The user is then invited to decide on the best course of action from a range of options.
Topics covered include
- Communication Skills
- Conscientious objection
- Advertising
- Professional Discipline and Whistleblowing
Square leg, square root, square egg, new fruit, Nice suit, NICE! - Latest Guidance December 12, 2007
Posted by western4uk in Clinical Governance, Clinical Guidelines, Evidence Based Practice, Quality.Tags: Clinical Governance, Clinical Guidelines, Evidence Based Practice, NICE
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Latest Nice Guidelines are:
- Interventions in medicines reconcilliation at the point of admission (PSP)
- Atopic eczema in children (CG)
- Thoracoscopic aortopexy for severe primary tracheomalacia (IP)
- Circumferential epithelial radiofrequency ablation for Barrett’s oesophagus (IP)
- Thoracoscopically-assisted mitral valve surgery (IP)
- Hybrid procedure for interim management of hypoplastic left heart syndrome in newborns (IP)
- Thoracoscopic excision of mediastinal parathyroid tumours (IP)
- Endoscopic saphenous vein harvest for coronary artery bypass graft (IP)
Apologies for the title which will only make sense if you are familiar with the work of the Jazz Butcher but a pun is always worthwhile.
Benchmarking the Essence of Care November 5, 2007
Posted by western4uk in Clinical Governance, Grey Literature, Quality.Tags: Care, Clinical Governance, Grey Literature, Quality, Standards
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This is the 11th in the Essence of Care series, and benchmarks the care environment within which the care of patients takes place. It is intended for all staff groups caring for patients across all organizations and settings, including patients’ homes.
NICE is Not Just a Biscuit…Latest NICE Guidance October 24, 2007
Posted by western4uk in Clinical Governance, Clinical Guidelines, Evidence Based Practice.Tags: Arthritis, Behaviour, Bladder Cancer, Clinical Governance, Clinical Guidelines, Drug Therapy, LUNA, Surgery
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- Behaviour change
- Endovascular stent insertion for Intracranial Atherosclerotic Disease
- Laparoscopic uterine nerve ablation (LUNA) for chronic pelvic pain
- Intravesical microwave hyperthermia with intravesical chemotherapy for superficial bladder cancer
- Bortezomib monotherapy for relapsed multilple myeloma
- Adalimumab, etanercept and infliximab for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis
Clinical Governance: Key Sites September 28, 2007
Posted by western4uk in Clinical Governance, Clinical Guidelines, Evidence Based Practice, Quality, Useful Weblinks.Tags: Clinical Governance, Starter for 10, Weblinks
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- Clinical Governance Support Team
- The Healthcare Commission
- NHS Litigation Authority - News
- Eastern Postgraduate General Education - GP Appraisal Resources
- NHS Networks
- Primary Care Contracting
- Commission for Social Care Inspection
- National Primary Care Research and Development Centre
- National Patient Safety Agency
Dignity for Older People in Hospital September 27, 2007
Posted by western4uk in Clinical Governance, Grey Literature.Tags: Clinical Governance, Grey Literature, Hospitals, Older People, Quality
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The Healthcare Commission is calling for NHS trusts to do more to ensure they consistently provide dignity in care to older people, including offering adequate nutrition and privacy. They have published Caring for dignity: A national report on dignity in care for older people while in hospital a national report on dignity in care. It warns NHS trusts of further checks, including unannounced visits, where there are clusters of evidence suggesting a problem at a hospital or on a ward. It is asking patients, their carers and the public - and their representative bodies like Age Concern - to come forward and tell the Commission where they have reason for concern.
