Since the concept of clinical governance was introduced by the Department of Health in 1997, much has been written about its implications for ... service and later outlined its plans in The New NHS: ...

Clinical governance was first described in a government White Paper in 1996 as ‘a new system in NHS Trusts and primary care to ensure ... improving performance and re-auditing.5 Standards are written ...

The cost and time involved with clinical governance emerged as the most important issues, with many respondents considering that costs of implementation might make more dentists leave the NHS.

The NHS’s new web-based occupational health clinical governance system is to be offered free to all ... Personnel Today articles are written by an expert team of award-winning journalists who have ...

Elaine Maxwell is director of nursing, Dorset County Hospital, Dorchester For the first time in the history of the NHS a statutory obligation - the Health Act 1999 - requires NHS organisations to ...

The transition from Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) to GP-led Clinical ... approach to governance of "apply and explain", rather than "comply or explain". Cynics will tell you the NHS model is "comply ...

A similar word, clinical governance, is used within medicine particularly by administrators and funding bodies who set their own agendas within health care. In 1998, the National Health Service (NHS) ...

NHS England has launched an investigation into NHS Crawley CCG after the chief clinical officer and chair both resigned. According to NHS England, the investigation that is underway relates to the ...