The failure to provide adequate personal protective equipment (PPE) health and social care workers during the pandemic has highlighted disintegration of any culture integrity, transparency, honesty, support for healthcare staff from government NHS employers. I have reported in BMJ this week on trusts’ behaviour around supply PPE their clinical responses when complained.1 Of 66 trusts (of 130 a...

Medical staff attorney Snelson answers the Colloquium's charge, "What exactly has to change in the hospital-medical staff relationship for health care quality to be improved?" Her response emphasizes the logic of having clinicians vested with authority to establish policies concerning the clinical decision-making. The article discusses the cases defining the medical staff bylaws as contractual ...

background and objectives: the iranian ministry of health and medical education has introduced clinical gov­ernance as the accepted model of hospital healthcare improvement. subsequently, a growing movement for implementing clinical governance in health facilities has emerged. this study aimed to explore the opinions of the relevant experts and executives to provide insight into current challen...

BACKGROUND Although patient handoffs have been extensively studied, they continue to be problematic. Studies have shown poor handoffs are associated with increased costs, morbidity, and mortality. No prior research compared perceptions of management and clinical staff regarding handoffs. PURPOSE Our aims were (a) to determine whether perceptions of organizational factors that can influence pa...