... Clinical governance Continuous quality improvement Health care quality Health policy Climate change General practice Infectious diseases Population health Health service quality assurance Evidence-based practice In writing the Review section for any issue of IJHG I look for common themes...

... care Surgery Continuous quality improvement General practice Family medicine Internal medicine Rural health Globally, colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the top three causes of cancer (World Health Organization, 2017). The incidence of CRC is rising rapidly in many low- and middle-income...

... rights only Health policy Effectiveness General practice Health law or regulation Infectious diseases Vaccines or vaccination Activities began to advance quickly in the mid-1990s when the US Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) sought to enlist pharmacists as a resource...

... of pharmaceutical sales (Statista, 2016b). Emerging health economies General practice Pharmaceuticals Immunology Vaccines or vaccination Family medicine Infectious diseases Vaccine manufacturing Vaccine research © Emerald Publishing Limited 2017 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use...

... product – iPLATO Patient Care Messaging – is now used by over 1,000 GP practices to communicate with over 10 million patients. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Health care quality Information technology Communication General practice Putting behavioural insights theory...

... to the collapse of the policy [1] . © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 General practice Health policy National Health Service United Kingdom There has been a significant amount of political unanimity and support behind the idea of locally based general practitioner (GP) commissioning...

... are involved in teaching you must develop the skills, attitudes and practices of a competent teacher. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 General practice Training Risk management Medical management Each year there are, on average, about 2,500 doctors training as specialists in general...

...@ncgst.nhs.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 General practice Primary care Performance appraisal Clinical governance National Health Service Clinical governance aims to raise patients' expectations about the quality and safety of their care, to improve collaborative...

.... Practical implications It is feasible to collect large series reviewing the outcome of interventions in general practice. Results can be usefully compared with those obtained in randomised controlled trials. Originality/value This is the largest review of steroid injections carried out in a single...

... and non‐training practice participants. Relationships between attitude and length of time as a principal were examined using a Chi Squared Test (χ^{2). A total of 617 principals in general practice were surveyed and 466 responses (76 per cent) were received, with 162 responses (35 per cent) from}...

... of work over the last two or three years without any money to help with NSFs and clinical governance[2]. Primary care General practice Management Policy In March 2001, the government announced that £100 million would be allocated to primary care groups (PCGs) and trusts (PCTs) nationally...

... training programmes. For the CGST, the programme for GP appraisers provided an opportunity to ensure: Clinical governance General practice Appraisal the successful implementation of clinical governance through high quality individual appraisal; that the values of clinical governance were...

... in their practice, they were replaced by the next randomly sequenced practice in the cell, until the cell was exhausted. Health care General practice Strategy Qualitative techniques In recent years, many clinical groups and organisations have produced guidelines. There is much advice available...

... Services utilisation study method, was used to produce audit criteria for necessary prescribing for systolic heart failure in New Zealand (NZ) general practice. Reports experience of applying these criteria in late 1999 to the medical notes of a random sample of 70 patients with heart failure, as defined...

... have the potential for a split between the developmental agenda and an interventionist, directive, agenda that would come from the identification of best practice and then the imposition of rules and targets for its achievement. © MCB UP Limited 2001 General practice Governance Health...

...! Although there has been much rhetoric about the involvement of patients in service planning and in enhancing the quality of care, and there are examples of good practice, effective involvement is by no means universal. Much of the experience, in general practice at least, has been focused on studies...

.... This study describes the impact on the management of the orthopaedic caseload in one general practice resulting from “screening” prior to referral to secondary care by a physiotherapist with an extended scope of practice. It demonstrates the successful management of the majority of patients within primary...

... aspirin during the period. The use of a publicity campaign to disseminate the message to both professionals and patients has resulted in a beneficial increase in aspirin prescribing for myocardial infarction across the district. © MCB UP Limited 1999 General practice Health care Marketing...