Clinical governance and clinical supervision: protecting standards of care

Clinical governance in primary care: participating in clinical governance.

Clinical governance in primary care: organisational development for clinical governance.

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Clinical Governance: Costs and Benefits

Quality of care: clinical governance and pathways.

On first reading, Stephen Bolsin’s editorial presents an encouraging and optimistic view of the way in which medical clinicians see their future roles and responsibilities regarding maintaining standards in Australian health care (Bolsin 2001). Referring to the Bristol case (Bolsin 1999; Hindle 1998), Bolsin says that past lapses provide "unequivocal guidance to doctors in both clinical and man...

Clinical Skills Centers Standards

Introduction. Setting up “Clinical Skills Labs” has been started in some Iranian medical universities since five years ago. In an educational workshop for Clinical Skills Labs managers in January 2001, many managers stated that if there were standards for these centers it would help them define the necessities of the center. These standards would also make the basis for internal and external ev...