Quality Assurance
A Pathway to Excellence
By Diana Sale
June 2000
Macmillan UK
ISBN: 0333749928
344 pages
$57.50 paper original
'This is a wonderful, solid and thorough book, which provides a good basic overview of quality assurance, and makes links to the wide variety of current NHS initiatives.' - Tim Scott, Health Service JournalIn the 1997 White Paper 'The New NHS, Modern, Dependable' the Government set out its plans for a new NHS with quality at its heart (a vision shared by many health professionals).
This book explores the application of the various approaches to quality assurance. The development of the subject, from its early days to the latest initiatives including guidelines, integrated care pathways and the new clinical governance instrument 'Probe', is explored as is its relevance to the pursuit of excellence.
Contents:
Introduction: An Overview of the History of Quality Assurance
Approaches to Quality Assurance
Total Quality Management
Clinical Audit
Clinical Effectiveness, Clinical Guidelines and Evidence-Based Practice
Clinical Governance
Integrated Care Pathways
Accreditation with a Difference
Glossary of TermsAuthor Biography:
DIANA N.T. SALE, RGN, RCNT, is Management Consultant, 1066 Consultancy Ltd, Quality Assurance Consultant to Dorset Health Authority and Associate Project Manager for Price Waterhouse, Birmingham.
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