1st Edition
Quality Improvement in Primary Care The Essential Guide
168 Pages
by
CRC Press
168 Pages
by
CRC Press
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'This excellent primer offers useful, simple practical advice: where to start, how to know how you're doing, and how to take simple steps to improve care for patients. It will be useful and used by clinicians across the health service.' Professor Martin Roland, in his Foreword 'The concept of clinical governance places a central responsibility for quality on the shoulders of those managing and... Read more
Introduction Section 1: Managing for quality 1. Patient perspectives 2. Leadership and management 3. Regulation 4. Commissioning for quality improvement Section 2: Tools for improvement 5. Frameworks for improvement 6. Understanding processes and how to improve them 7. Measuring for improvement 8. Systems, safety and spread 9. Financial incentives Section 3: Evaluation and personal development 10. Evaluating improvement 11. Evidence-based healthcare 12. Individual practice and how to improve it 13. Conclusion
Biography
STEPHEN GILLAM General Practitioner, Lea Vale Medical Group, Luton Director of Public Health Teaching, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge and A NIROSHAN SIRIWARDENA General Practitioner Professor of Primary and Pre-hospital Health
