Faith-based organisations and health care: invest, don't proselytise

Handle With Care: Engaging with faith-based organisations in development

Faith has always had an intense, but uneasy relationship with development. Donors are currently seeking greater engagement with FBOs. This positive shift needs careful consideration. Faith can be a powerful, but flammable fuel for change. FBOs are highly diverse and complex. Donors need to handle FBOs, but do so with understanding and care. This Viewpoint outlines both the major concerns about ...

Faith-Based Organizations in a System of Behavioral Health Care

Organisations and safety in health care.

T he role that organisations play in provoking or preventing accidents has been long studied in industry, but has only recently begun to gain attention in health care. But, understanding safety in complex socio-technical systems requires analysis at multiple levels, and each level is characteristically best approached by a different discipline. Because the relevant disciplines (such as sociolog...

Handle with (faith-based) care.

Summary and implications for health - care organisations

16 Top tips for risk management The second issue of the Clinical Governance Bulletin deals with risk management. Clinical governance, by making chief executives accountable for quality, has been a powerful influence for the introduction of systematic processes and systems to monitor care and thus assure the quality of the care patients receive. Risk management is one of these processes. The imp...