... 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 and try to draw out key points which link together contributed articles. For IJHG 25.4...

... Emerald Publishing Limited 2017 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Evidence-based practice Process mapping Teamwork Primary care Surgery Continuous quality improvement General practice Family medicine Internal medicine Rural health 04 05 2017 15 08 2017...

... © Emerald Publishing Limited 2017 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Health policy Effectiveness General practice Health law or regulation Infectious diseases Vaccines or vaccination Vaccines represent one of the most significant advances in healthcare...

... Limited 2017 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Emerging health economies General practice Pharmaceuticals Immunology Vaccines or vaccination Family medicine Infectious diseases Vaccine manufacturing Vaccine research From a global perspective, the top five...

... is working with the research group to expand the research and improve on the reported findings while helping to spread best practice across the NHS. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Health care quality Information technology Communication General practice Putting behavioural...

...@lancaster.ac.uk © 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. GPs are rightly seen...

... 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 practice in the NHS. In addition, many junior doctors work in general practice settings during their foundation years...

...@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...

... practices would express more positive attitudes than non‐training colleagues because of their required involvement in SEA as part of a long‐running regional audit programme in the west of Scotland deanery. We also aimed to determine if length of service as a principal in general practice affected attitudes...

... dimension of GPs’ self‐assessment of their contribution to PCT policy making. GP comments conveyed their insubstantial influence on the conception of the scheme. The case served as an example of a management team initiative that was enacted in general practice with limited input from GP PEC members. One...

... practice Appraisal In our previous article we described how the NHS Clinical Governance Support Team (CGST) is developing the strategic leadership of clinical governance through a programme for NHS Trust boards. In 2002 the CGST launched two further programmes to support healthcare professionals...

... not add in an ACE inhibitor at that point. That’s probably not right, but, well, that’s probably what I would do (GP A, no use of ECHO service). © MCB UP Limited 2002 Health care General practice Strategy Qualitative techniques In recent years, many clinical groups...

... 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...

... General practice Governance Health care Models In this paper we present a review of the development of clinical governance during the first year of operation of Bradford South and West Primary Care Group (PCG). We will set the scene by looking at the historical legacy of fundholding within...

... governance is dependent on the right culture prevailing within the NHS. Progress and problems in the implementation of clinical governance to date are discussed. © MCB UP Limited 2001 Organizational change National Health Service General practice When the history of the profession...

.... 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...

... Limited 1999 General practice Health care Marketing communications Medical products United Kingdom (1) whether patients with a confirmed diagnosis were receiving 75mg aspirin at discharge from hospital; and (2) whether they were still taking it six months later...