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		<title>Concern over Chinese hospital management (and governance) following disposal of live baby as stillbirth</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 07:18:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Healthcare Governance Review editor Professor Stuart Emslie runs an annual masters module in risk management and clinical governance for, typically, 150-200 senior medical doctors and administrators across China. The students undertake a Master of Hospital Administration, which is jointly run by Flinders University in South Australia and Nankai University in China. A few weeks ago [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2956173&amp;post=2712&amp;subd=healthcaregovernancereview&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Andrew Lansley advocates &#8216;Accountable Care Organisations&#8217; in NHS</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:26:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As reported in the Health Service Journal today (16 November 2011 – click here) the Secretary of State for Health, Andrew Lansley, has “…….advocated the model of accountable care organisations, most commonly, although not exclusively, associated with the US healthcare sector. These are networks of providers which are given a pooled budget for patients’ care [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2956173&amp;post=2707&amp;subd=healthcaregovernancereview&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Andrew Lansley comments on publication of Department of Health &#8216;risk register&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:13:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As reported in the Health Service Journal today (16 November 2011 – click here) the Secretary of State for Health, Andrew Lansley, responding for the first time to the Information Commissioner’s judgement that the Department of Health (DH) should publish its “register” setting out the risks of the reforms, said the DH had yet to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2956173&amp;post=2705&amp;subd=healthcaregovernancereview&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Notable quote: &#8216;Leadership matters more than size and organisational uniformity&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:04:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>CQC cites &#8216;governance and management&#8217; failings at Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 14:04:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>HFMA issues governance (management?) guidance for clinical commissioning groups</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 13:54:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) has issued a useful briefing document exploring governance arrangements for clinical commissioning groups as statutory bodies. Perhaps rather misleadingly titled Governance: Managing a Corporate Organisation (‘governance’ and ‘management’ are two quite separate issues – Ed.) the document “looks at the arrangements commissioning groups may need to establish to ensure [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2956173&amp;post=2700&amp;subd=healthcaregovernancereview&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>GMC survey of medical directors finds &#8216;improved governance and management&#8217; a key factor in increased &#8216;Fitness to Practise&#8217; referrals</title>
		<link>http://healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com/2011/10/30/gmc-survey-of-medical-directors-finds-improved-governance-and-management-a-key-factor-in-increased-fitness-to-practice-referrals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2011 13:51:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The annual volume of Fitness to Practise enquiries made to the General Medical Council (GMC) has increased by 30% since 2004, by 14% since 2006 and by 11% between 2008 and 2009. Many enquiries come from Persons Acting in a Public Capacity (PAPCs), that is people acting on behalf of a public organisation, and a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2956173&amp;post=2698&amp;subd=healthcaregovernancereview&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Open University NHS governance project</title>
		<link>http://healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com/2011/10/23/open-university-nhs-governance-project/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Oct 2011 15:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Readers may already be aware that full details, including reports, an NHS/SDO funded project on NHS governance carried out by the Open University are available on the Open University website here.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2956173&amp;post=2697&amp;subd=healthcaregovernancereview&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Notable quote: Boards and strategy</title>
		<link>http://healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com/2011/10/22/notable-quote-boards-and-strategy-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Oct 2011 10:11:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“The board’s role in large organisations is not to formulate strategy, but rather to set the context of strategy. It does this in a number of ways: through setting and actively reviewing the corporate definition – the ‘What business are we in’ question; through the gatekeeping function – actively assessing and reviewing strategic proposals, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2956173&amp;post=2696&amp;subd=healthcaregovernancereview&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Can anyone help a PCT NED with her research looking at the governance contribution of PCT NEDs?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 09:49:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joy Tweed is a Primary Care Trust (PCT) non-executive director (NED) and she would like to ask for your help. She’s undertaking research for her PhD at the School of Management, Birkbeck, University of London, looking at the contribution of non-executive Directors to governance within PCTs and she wishes to interview current and former PCT [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2956173&amp;post=2695&amp;subd=healthcaregovernancereview&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Healthcare Governance Review receives it&#8217;s 100,000th &#8216;hit&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 08:54:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some time on the evening of Thursday 6 October 2011 www.healthcaregovernancereview.org recorded its 100,000th ‘hit’. This means that since the site was established in January 2009 it has received an average of a little over 3000 hits per month. The statistics show that the most popular day on the site was January 10 2011 with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2956173&amp;post=2692&amp;subd=healthcaregovernancereview&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Risk and Patient Safety 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 08:36:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Healthcare Conferences UK have announced that the twelfth annual Risk and Patient Safety conference will take place Thursday 2 February 2012 — Friday 3 February at the Cavendish Conference Centre, London The conference will offer delegates the opportunity to hear from some of the leading speakers in patient safety, risk management and improvement, and to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2956173&amp;post=2691&amp;subd=healthcaregovernancereview&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Scooby Doo rated as &#8216;most active&#8217; children&#8217;s TV programme</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Sep 2011 16:08:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to research published by the Department of Health (click here) Scooby Doo has been ranked as the most active children’s TV programme, ahead of Shaun the Sheep, Lazy Town, Peppa Pig, Bob the Builder and Tom and Jerry. PCP Research Consultants analysed the top 20 children’s programmes and characters shown on UK TV channels [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2956173&amp;post=2687&amp;subd=healthcaregovernancereview&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>IRM launches risk appetite &amp; tolerance guidance</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Sep 2011 15:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Institute of Risk Management (IRM) has produced a guidance paper to provide guidance to directors, risk professionals and others in relation to that part of the UK Corporate Governance Code that states that “the board is responsible for determining the nature and extent of the significant risks it is willing to take in achieving [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2956173&amp;post=2686&amp;subd=healthcaregovernancereview&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why do Boards fail?</title>
		<link>http://healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com/2011/09/04/why-do-boards-fail/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Sep 2011 10:39:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An interesting short article in The Independent (1 September 2011) reflects on “…some spectacular corporate governance failures [and] argues that it is time to put boards under the same performance criteria as other management teams.” Read the article Why do Boards fail? here.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2956173&amp;post=2685&amp;subd=healthcaregovernancereview&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NHS Scotland issues draft new clinical governance and risk management standard</title>
		<link>http://healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com/2011/09/02/nhs-scotland-issues-draft-new-clinical-governance-and-risk-management-standard/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 17:21:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Healthcare Improvement Scotland has issued, for consultation, a draft Healthcare Quality Standard, which is their new core clinical governance and risk management standard. Healthcare Improvement Scotland has responsibility for setting quality standards for clinical governance and risk management, which will provide an assurance that healthcare organisations are providing high quality healthcare. They also have responsibility [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2956173&amp;post=2683&amp;subd=healthcaregovernancereview&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Good management of NHS staff improves quality and reduces cost says research</title>
		<link>http://healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com/2011/09/02/good-management-of-nhs-staff-improves-quality-and-reduces-cost-says-research/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 14:33:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Department of Health (DH) has published findings of DH-funded research carried out by Aston University Business School. The research shows that: &#34;Good management of NHS staff leads to higher quality of care, more satisfied patients and lower patient mortality. Good staff management offers significant financial savings for the NHS, as its leaders respond to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2956173&amp;post=2682&amp;subd=healthcaregovernancereview&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Latest newsletter from the Good Governance Institute</title>
		<link>http://healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com/2011/08/28/latest-newsletter-from-the-good-governance-institute/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Aug 2011 08:34:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Good Governance Institute’s latest newsletter highlights the following work done, or being undertaken by the Institute: Governance of GP Clinical Commissioning Groups Governance of flexible working Governance of telehealth Safeguarding adults Cycle of business for clusters Diversity and inclusion Developing boards Boards appetite for risk To access the latest newsletter, click here.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2956173&amp;post=2681&amp;subd=healthcaregovernancereview&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Effective Governance Models for Clinical Commissioning Groups&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com/2011/08/10/effective-governance-models-for-clinical-commissioning-groups/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 17:01:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Foresight Partnership, supported by King’s Patient Safety and Service Quality Research Centre, were commissioned by the National Leadership Council to develop a development tool to look at ways in which the principles of good governance might apply and be adapted to Clinical Commissioning Groups in the light of the Government’s response to the listening exercise. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2956173&amp;post=2679&amp;subd=healthcaregovernancereview&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What makes an excellent NHS foundation trust?</title>
		<link>http://healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com/2011/08/07/what-makes-an-excellent-nhs-foundation-trust/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Aug 2011 17:27:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Research carried out by specialist healthcare management consultancy Finnamore, who were awarded the coveted title ‘Consultants of the Year 2010’ by HealthInvestor magazine, has identified, from a survey of NHS chief executives, their views on the fundamental question, ‘What makes an excellent Foundation Trust&#8217;? According to Finnamore, “What this research begins to reveal are the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2956173&amp;post=2671&amp;subd=healthcaregovernancereview&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A governance &#8216;golden oldie&#8217; &#8211; &#8216;Effective NHS boards&#8217; research report</title>
		<link>http://healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com/2011/07/28/a-golden-oldie-effective-nhs-boards-research-report/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 15:20:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It may be a 2005 research report on effective NHS boards from the NHS Confederation, but here at Healthcare Governance Review we noticed that the document is now available as a free PDF download from the NHS Confederation’s website. This is the first report to provide evidence on characteristics of effective NHS boards and is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2956173&amp;post=2669&amp;subd=healthcaregovernancereview&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Shared decision-making &#8211; Kings Fund report</title>
		<link>http://healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com/2011/07/28/shared-decision-making-kings-fund-report/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 13:19:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Kings Fund has, today, launched its report Making shared decision-making a reality: No decision about me, without me. According to the Kings Fund, “Shared decision-making is a process in which clinicians and patients work together to clarify treatment, management or self-management support goals, sharing information about options and preferred outcomes with the aim of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2956173&amp;post=2668&amp;subd=healthcaregovernancereview&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Whose heads should roll? Making sense of accountability</title>
		<link>http://healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com/2011/07/26/whose-heads-should-roll-making-sense-of-accountability/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 10:22:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the wake of the News International crisis, here is an interesting and thought-provoking article from Caroline Oliver, international board governance consultant and Policy Governance specialist. In this article Caroline makes sense of accountability and offers a practical means of creating an organisational accountability system based on Policy Governance. Read the article Whose heads should roll? [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2956173&amp;post=2666&amp;subd=healthcaregovernancereview&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>From financial to clinical? Perceptions and conversations in NHS boardrooms</title>
		<link>http://healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com/2011/07/23/from-financial-to-clinical-perceptions-and-conversations-in-nhs-boardrooms/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2011 11:38:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Institute for Employment Studies (IES) has produced a report on research that aimed to “….gain a deeper understanding of how NHS boards engage with clinical issues, and so contribute to knowledge on what makes a board effective.” According to the IES “Board effectiveness is a hot topic and particularly scalding in two sectors. Firstly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2956173&amp;post=2665&amp;subd=healthcaregovernancereview&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Governance and local accountability at NHS foundation trusts</title>
		<link>http://healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com/2011/07/21/governance-and-local-accountability-at-nhs-foundation-trusts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 09:08:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Progress so far with local accountability at NHS foundation trusts is revealed in two reports published this month by Monitor, the independent regulator. This post reproduces information on this issue that appears on the Monitor website here. Foundation trusts were set up with a unique governance structure which was specifically designed to achieve greater local [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2956173&amp;post=2659&amp;subd=healthcaregovernancereview&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ICSA launches their report on NHS governance</title>
		<link>http://healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com/2011/07/21/icsa-launches-their-report-on-nhs-governance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 08:21:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators (ICSA) launched their research report on NHS governance in London yesterday (Wednesday 20 July 2011). Titled ‘Mapping the gap’ the report highlights the disconnect between governance best practice and reality in the NHS in England. The ‘Mapping the gap’ research project was initiated to examine the degree to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2956173&amp;post=2653&amp;subd=healthcaregovernancereview&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A study of boards of high performing organisations in the NHS</title>
		<link>http://healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com/2011/07/21/a-study-of-boards-of-high-performing-organisations-in-the-nhs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 07:48:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A team at Manchester University Business School, led by Professor Naomi Chambers, have published a study of boards of high performing organisations in the NHS. The researchers identified the top 19 NHS organisations in England using a combination of measures. They included metrics over several years to exclude sheer good luck or unsustained high performance. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2956173&amp;post=2651&amp;subd=healthcaregovernancereview&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Managing conflicts of interest in clinical commissioning groups</title>
		<link>http://healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com/2011/07/18/managing-conflicts-of-interest-in-clinical-commissioning-groups/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 08:02:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The NHS Confederation has published a paper on Managing conflicts of interest in clinical commissioning groups. The paper “is intended to prompt further debate of this issue, to encourage colleagues to respond with their ideas and suggestions on how conflicts of interest can best be managed by CCGs, and to highlight to policy makers some [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2956173&amp;post=2649&amp;subd=healthcaregovernancereview&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Governing the NHS the independent way&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com/2011/07/18/governing-the-nhs-the-independent-way/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 07:13:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Onmedica carries an interesting article from Dr Ade Adeagbo, Chair of the Non Executive Directors Network, NHS Alliance. Dr Adeagbo believes that “For the NHS to achieve QUIPP and ‘Nicholson Challenge’ it must have a governance system that requires from the health and care systems, fundamental changes in the way care is provided and managed. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2956173&amp;post=2648&amp;subd=healthcaregovernancereview&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Deadly Healthcare&#8217; &#8211; an essential read for everyone in healthcare management and governance</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scottish former medical director, and currently Director of the Greater Green Triangle University Department of Rural Health, Flinders and Deakin Universities, Australia, Professor James Dunbar and his co-authors have published an “absorbing” book, which Healthcare Governance Review believes that anyone concerned with the governance and/or management of healthcare systems and organisations should read. ‘Deadly Healthcare’ [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2956173&amp;post=2646&amp;subd=healthcaregovernancereview&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lecturer/Senior Lecturer post in health care management at Flinders University, South Australia</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 18:28:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Flinders University Health Care Management, Faculty of Health Sciences, is advertising for a lecturer or senior lecturer in health care management. According to the University, “This position will strengthen a high performing team, contributing to post-graduate teaching, to research in health services and to the development of the health management profession. A major responsibility will [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2956173&amp;post=2642&amp;subd=healthcaregovernancereview&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Updated NHS Audit Committee handbook</title>
		<link>http://healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com/2011/07/05/updated-nhs-audit-committee-handbook/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 15:48:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The NHS Audit Committee Handbook has been developed by the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) Governance and Audit Committee and takes account of developments since the 2005 edition was published. It reflects the structure of the NHS in 2010/11 and will be updated once the coalition government’s proposals for the restructuring of the NHS in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2956173&amp;post=2640&amp;subd=healthcaregovernancereview&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NICE consults on quality standard for patient experience</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2011 10:51:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellent (NICE) is consulting on a draft patient experience standard. The consultation finishes on 19 July 2011 at 5pm.&#160; Individuals and organisations not registered as stakeholders are not able to comment on the standard, and NICE recommends that you register as a stakeholder or you contact the registered [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2956173&amp;post=2639&amp;subd=healthcaregovernancereview&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Comparing US health care quality &#8211; a national directory</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 13:09:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some readers might be interested in what we at Healthcare Governance Review feel is a rather ‘neat’ US website. Comparing Health Care Quality: A National Directory is a map-based listing of health care “performance measurement” resources available across the USA. The directory links to 197 free and publicly available reports in 46 states, as well [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2956173&amp;post=2637&amp;subd=healthcaregovernancereview&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ICSA to launch its NHS governance report on 20 July 2011, London</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 08:19:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators (ICSA) will launch, on 20 July 2011 in London, a report into NHS governance, benchmarking the gap between governance best practice and reality with a view to developing a better understanding of how and why good governance is often understood but not always implemented appropriately in practice. The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2956173&amp;post=2632&amp;subd=healthcaregovernancereview&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;NHS complaints system is not working&#8221; says health watchdog</title>
		<link>http://healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com/2011/06/29/nhs-complaints-system-is-not-working-says-health-watchdog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 08:03:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Health Committee has reported its findings on complaints and litigation in the NHS in England and its key finds are: The role of the Health Service Ombudsman needs a complete overhaul if it is to provide an effective appeals process for the complaints system. The NHS still has no national protocol for the classification [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2956173&amp;post=2633&amp;subd=healthcaregovernancereview&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What a song and dance over Welsh patients given tambourine to alert nurses rather than electric buzzer!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 21:26:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here at Healthcare Governance Review we take the issue of patient safety and welfare very seriously. But we couldn’t help being somewhat bemused over a newspaper report that in the absence of a working buzzer, patients in a Victorian hospital in Cardiff were provided with a tambourine by well meaning staff to help them alert [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2956173&amp;post=2626&amp;subd=healthcaregovernancereview&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NHS accounts guides: 2011 update &#8211; for non-executives and governors</title>
		<link>http://healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com/2011/06/27/nhs-accounts-guides-2011-update-for-non-executives-and-governors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 12:30:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Audit Commission and the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) have produced NHS Foundation Trust Accounts: A guide for non-executives and governors &#8211; April 2011 Update. The publication includes additional questions for non-executive directors and governors, describing the main changes since the previous guides were published in 2010. It complements two documents published in 2010, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2956173&amp;post=2623&amp;subd=healthcaregovernancereview&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Are efficiency and productivity increasing in the NHS?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Audit Commission has produced a briefing that reviews how and where primary care trusts (PCTs) spent their money, how trust income changed and how successful the NHS has been in moving care out of hospitals to more cost-effective settings. The most recent data suggests that the NHS has seen no identifiable changes in past [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2956173&amp;post=2622&amp;subd=healthcaregovernancereview&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Government publishes response to NHS Future Forum</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 08:20:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Government has published its response to the NHS Future Forum. The government says that GP consortia will be called “clinical commissioning groups”. They will have governing bodies with at least one nurse and one specialist doctor plus lay members and will meet in public. The government has also promised to improve the quality of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2956173&amp;post=2634&amp;subd=healthcaregovernancereview&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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