International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance: Volume 17 Issue 5
Addressing the issues of management and quality
Table of contents
Quality assurance for clinical research: challenges in implementing research governance in UK hospitals
Linda S. Franck, Emma Pendleton, Barbara Pittam, Michael Preece, Al Aynsley‐GreenThe oversight of clinical research in the UK is currently in a state of flux. Discusses the quality assurance problems that have arisen in the management of research and the…
Evaluating a health service taskforce
Max MoullinA large number of taskforces and other quality improvement teams have been set up to achieve change in recent years, both in health and elsewhere, but there has been relatively…
Organisational culture: pursuing a theoretical foundation within the Finnish public oral health‐care context
Kirsti Kasila, Marita PoskipartaAt the moment, Finnish oral health care is undergoing many changes. Little attention has been paid to issues of organisational culture and communication in Finnish oral health…
Formulation and feedback: an illustration of two methods for improving access to effective therapies
Derek Milne, Seirian Hanner, Katy Woodward, Colin WestermanIt is now recognised that therapists require career‐long training in order to maintain and improve their expertise. However, training will fail to improve services to clients…
Involving patients to improve service quality in primary care
Keith Stevenson, Paul Sinfield, Vince Ion, Marilyn MerryA sample of 92 UK patients volunteered to take part in focus groups to discuss what elements of local primary care provision were important to them. Issues raised were prioritised…
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hybridEditors:
- Professor Charu Chandra
- Professor Sameer Kumar