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Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), Organisational, governance and financial responsibilities A CCG is responsible for the commissioning of services, ensuring contract system...
Clinical Research FAQ, What is clinical research? Clinical research or trials are studies that look at what happens when we take a certain medicine or how we are affect...
External bodies that may require access to SEA reports include patients and carers, educational peer reviewers, Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) assessors, GP appraisers, clinical governance...
Clinical Negligence, You must keep records that contain personal information about patients, colleagues or others securely, and in line with any data protection requirements. Clinical...
Elbow arthroplasty has now become a more reliable option, particularly for distal humerus fractures. [ 10 ] There is currently limited evidence on the safety and efficacy of lateral elbow resur...
GPs with a special interest in drug misuse can become involved in care. Good clinical governance systems will enable high-quality care. There should be no prejudice or discriminat...
Therefore, NICE recommends that the procedure should only be used with special arrangements for clinical governance, consent and audit or research. Older treatments Older treatments for...
It forms part of clinical governance, which aims to safeguard a high quality of clinical care for patients. [ 1 ] Key features of audit are: [ 1 ] Audit asks the questio...
The current NICE guidance states that the evidence on the safety and efficacy of radiation therapy for early Dupuytren's disease is limited in quantity and there is uncertainty about the natural h...
A paper from Bandolier is recommended. [ 11 ] Clinical governance and risk management An essential part of clinical governance is the management of risk.
NICE recommends that the procedure should only be used with special arrangements for clinical governance, consent and audit or research. [ 7 ] See also the leaflet on Lipodystrophy Synd...
Basic quality and safety concepts Risk management and clinical governance is particularly important in providing safe and high quality telephone care.
NICE recommends that, in light of well-recognised complications and limited evidence of efficacy, this procedure should only be used with special arrangements for clinical governance, consent...
NICE's guidance confirms that evidence on the safety and efficacy of stereotactic radiosurgery for trigeminal neuralgia is adequate to support using this procedure provided that standard arrangeme...
There are many potential explanations as to why eccentric loading is effective, the likeliest being changes in neuromuscular control that reduce the tendon load. [ 8 ] A Cochrane review of inj...
However, since evidence on its efficacy is limited in quantity and quality, NICE recommends that this procedure should only be used with special arrangements for clinical governance, consent,...
Therefore, current recommendations are that this can only be done where there are "special arrangements for clinical governance, consent and audit or research" [ 7 ] . Subsequ...
They confirm the procedure is safe but should be offered by suitably trained surgeons able to offer patients conventional hip replacements and with normal arrangements for clinical governance...
Therefore, this procedure should only be used with special arrangements for clinical governance, consent and audit, or for research [ 13 ] . Editor...
They therefore recommend that the procedure should only be used with special arrangements for clinical governance, consent, and audit or research. Risks of...