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		<title>Notable quote: Making sense of NHS governance</title>
		<link>http://healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/notable-quote-making-sense-of-nhs-governance/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#34;The ideas, principles and mechanisms constituting governance in the NHS derive from an amalgam drawn from corporate governance, public governance and a variety of other sources. The resulting miscellany presents directors, managers and senior clinicians with a considerable sense-making challenge.&#34;
Richard Holti and John Storey &#8211; Clinical and non-clinical executive directors’&#160; Sense-making of the new governance [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com&blog=2956173&post=2066&subd=healthcaregovernancereview&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>House of Commons Health Committee &#8216;Special Report&#8217; on Patient Safety</title>
		<link>http://healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com/2009/11/11/house-of-commons-health-committee-special-report-on-patient-safety/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Health Committee has published a ‘special report’ on patient safety relating to the Committee’s patient safety report published in July 2009 (click here).
The Government responded to the patient safety report on 13 October (click here).
This special report sets out the responses to the patient safety report&#160; by the Care Quality Commission and Monitor. It [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com&blog=2956173&post=2065&subd=healthcaregovernancereview&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Managing healthcare risk: Out with AS/NZS 4360 &#8211; In with ISO 31000</title>
		<link>http://healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com/2009/11/07/managing-healthcare-risk-out-with-asnzs-4360-in-with-iso-31000/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:13:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Few people concerned with managing ANY kind of risk in the NHS will not have heard of AS/NZS 4360 – the Australian/New Zealand risk management Standard. The Standard was licensed for the NHS in England in 1999 as part of the Department of Health’s NHS Controls Assurance Project. It introduced to the NHS the concept [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com&blog=2956173&post=2058&subd=healthcaregovernancereview&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Notable Quote: Sir Stuart Burgess on the board&#8217;s conundrum</title>
		<link>http://healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com/2009/11/07/notable-quote-sir-stuart-burgess-on-the-boards-conundrum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:19:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“How do you equate the total accountability of the board for all that the organisation does with the practical impossibility of knowing everything that is being done in the board’s name?”
Sir Stuart Burgess, quoted in Corporate Governance Countdown
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		<title>Primary Care Trust fined &#163;10,000 after patient falls 4 metres from a window</title>
		<link>http://healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com/2009/11/07/primary-care-trust-fined-10000-after-patient-falls-4-metres-from-a-window/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:06:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[North East Essex Primary Care Trust has been fined £10,000 and ordered to pay costs of £4,972 after a vulnerable and partially-sighted patient it was responsible for fell 4.3 metres from a first floor window at Clacton &#38; District Hospital.
The retired 68-year-old suffered a blow to the head and broke his pelvis, shoulder and coccyx [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com&blog=2956173&post=2056&subd=healthcaregovernancereview&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Assessing board effectiveness should be a required component of the annual work programme for all NHS boards&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/assessing-board-effectiveness-should-be-a-required-component-of-the-annual-work-programme-for-all-nhs-boards/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:11:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Department of Health has published the summary findings of Neil Goodwin’s review of allegations of bullying and harassment of the United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS trust by the East Midlands Strategic Health Authority (see previous post here).
The review found “no evidence” to support the claims against East Midlands Strategic Health Authority (SHA). However, concerns have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com&blog=2956173&post=2042&subd=healthcaregovernancereview&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Draft regulations for registration system in England breathe new life into clinical governance</title>
		<link>http://healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/draft-regulations-for-new-registration-system-in-england-breathe-new-life-into-clinical-governance/</link>
		<comments>http://healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/draft-regulations-for-new-registration-system-in-england-breathe-new-life-into-clinical-governance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:14:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The new registration system for health and adult social care in England is described in the post below.
Healthcare Governance Review notes that the draft regulations that will, when finalised and published, set the legal standards framework for registration, require ‘registered persons’ to have “a system of clinical governance and audit.”
According to para. 23(3) of the draft [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com&blog=2956173&post=2036&subd=healthcaregovernancereview&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Charity Commission disputes Department of Health ruling on NHS charities&#8217; accounts</title>
		<link>http://healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/charity-commission-disputes-department-of-health-ruling-on-nhs-charities-accounts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:07:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to an article in ThirdSector (27 October 2009), The Charity Commission appears to be heading for a showdown with the Department of Health (DH) over accounting procedures for NHS charities in England and Wales.
Senior Department of Health official Janet Perry has told health authorities that any NHS body that is the sole trustee of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com&blog=2956173&post=2049&subd=healthcaregovernancereview&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New registration system for health and adult social care in England from April 2010</title>
		<link>http://healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/new-registration-system-for-health-and-adult-social-care-in-england-from-april-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:54:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From 1 April 2010, the regulation of health and adult social care in England will change. Legislation is bringing in a new system that applies to all regulated health and adult social care services.
All health and adult social care providers, who provide regulated activities, will be required by law to register with the Care Quality [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com&blog=2956173&post=2035&subd=healthcaregovernancereview&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Patients at risk from mis-management of medicines</title>
		<link>http://healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/patients-at-risk-from-mis-management-of-medicines/</link>
		<comments>http://healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/patients-at-risk-from-mis-management-of-medicines/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:25:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to a new report by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), patients could be at risk unless the management of medicines between services such as GP practices and hospitals is improved. 
The report &#8211; Managing patients’ medicines after discharge from hospital &#8211; looks at how well patients’ medication is managed after patients leave hospital. 
The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com&blog=2956173&post=2034&subd=healthcaregovernancereview&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NHSLA publishes timeline setting out history of its standards and assessment</title>
		<link>http://healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/nhsla-publishes-timeline-setting-out-history-of-its-standards-and-assessment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:08:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A useful timeline has been published by the NHS Litigation Authority as a Powerpoint file. 
It sets out the key internal events that have marked the development of the NHSLA risk management standards and assessments, together with the external events that have influenced them from the establishment of the NHSLA in 1995 through to the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com&blog=2956173&post=2033&subd=healthcaregovernancereview&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NHSLA and NICE joint statement about NICE guidance and risk management</title>
		<link>http://healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/nhsla-and-nice-joint-statement-about-nice-guidance-and-risk-management/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:52:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The NHS Litigation Authority (NHSLA) and the National Institute for health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) have issued a joint statement about how compliance with NICE guidance can help trusts manage risk and optimise their resources.
Compliance with NICE guidance is the focus of criterion 5.8 of the NHSLA risk management standards. This requires organisations to have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com&blog=2956173&post=2031&subd=healthcaregovernancereview&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NHS governance related courses from ICSA</title>
		<link>http://healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/nhs-governance-related-courses-from-icsa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 13:36:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators (ICSA) is running three governance related one day courses for NHS participants during November 2009. Detailed are as follows. ICSA says if all three courses are booked you save 20% on total price – a saving of £237. 
The NHS Trust Secretary 
Price: £395 Date and location: 10 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com&blog=2956173&post=2028&subd=healthcaregovernancereview&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>One in 50 episodes of NHS care result from &#8216;complications&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/one-in-50-episodes-of-nhs-care-result-from-complications/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 13:28:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to provisional figures released by the NHS Information Centre this month, one in 50 episodes of care commissioned by the NHS, in NHS hospitals or the independent sector, in England resulted from a complication between July 2008 and June 2009.
This equates to 326,000 (two percent) of the 16.3 million episodes during this period, a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com&blog=2956173&post=2027&subd=healthcaregovernancereview&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Notable quote: Governance in healthcare</title>
		<link>http://healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/notable-quote-governance-in-healthcare/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 06:07:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Governance lives at board level, but its effects should be felt from board to ward.”
Linda Abolins, Lesley Adcock, Juliet Hardcastle, Andrew Jackson, Keith Peskett. Postgraduate programme in healthcare governance, Loughborough University, October 2009.
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		<title>BMJ research paper adds to evidence of increased patient mortality associated with trainee doctors</title>
		<link>http://healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/bmj-research-paper-adds-to-evidence-of-increased-patient-mortality-associated-with-trainee-doctors/</link>
		<comments>http://healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/bmj-research-paper-adds-to-evidence-of-increased-patient-mortality-associated-with-trainee-doctors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:14:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent Healthcare Governance Review post focused on Dr Foster’s research into the association between increased patient mortality and the August intake of new junior doctors (click here).
The British Medical Journal (BMJ) has published a research paper describing a study that sought to determine whether an increase in the rate of undesirable events occurs after [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com&blog=2956173&post=2022&subd=healthcaregovernancereview&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<link>http://healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/surgeons-survey-indicates-patients-are-less-safe-with-european-time-working-directive/</link>
		<comments>http://healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/surgeons-survey-indicates-patients-are-less-safe-with-european-time-working-directive/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:51:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Royal College of Surgeons has published the results of its survey into the impact of the introduction of the European Working Time Regulations (EWTR) on surgeons. The results are based on responses by 900 surgeons across the UK and indicate that there is clear evidence that patients are much less safe in the NHS [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com&blog=2956173&post=2020&subd=healthcaregovernancereview&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NPSA publishes latest organisational incident reports&#8230;..but still no learning</title>
		<link>http://healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/npsa-publishes-latest-organisational-incident-reports-but-still-no-learning/</link>
		<comments>http://healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/npsa-publishes-latest-organisational-incident-reports-but-still-no-learning/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:32:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) has published &#8216;Organisational Patient Safety Incident Reports&#8217; for NHS organisations across England and Wales. The reports summarise incidents reported by staff that have occurred between October 2008 and March 2009, and reported to the NPSA by 30 June 2009.
The figures show that across England, 92.5 per cent of all [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com&blog=2956173&post=2018&subd=healthcaregovernancereview&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Government response to the Health Select Committee Report &#8216;Patient Safety&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/the-government-response-to-the-health-select-committee-report-patient-safety/</link>
		<comments>http://healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/the-government-response-to-the-health-select-committee-report-patient-safety/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:32:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Department of Health has published the Government’s response to the Health Select Committee Report ‘Patient Safety.’
National Reporting and Learning System (NRLS)
The Health Select Committee stated that “After the expenditure of much effort and funding on the National Reporting and Learning System…….we are concerned that the NRLS is nevertheless still limited in its effectiveness.”
Healthcare Governance [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com&blog=2956173&post=2016&subd=healthcaregovernancereview&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons from a review of five London hospital fires and their management</title>
		<link>http://healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/lessons-from-a-review-of-five-london-hospital-fires-and-their-management/</link>
		<comments>http://healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/lessons-from-a-review-of-five-london-hospital-fires-and-their-management/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 06:57:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NHS London has published&#160; a review of five significant fires during 2008/09 at NHS sites in London, which required the evacuation of part or whole of the building. Any evacuation of a large commercial building is difficult – coping with a facility as complex as an NHS site, complete with sick and recovering patients, staff [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com&blog=2956173&post=2015&subd=healthcaregovernancereview&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Upcoming clinical governance and related conferences from Healthcare Events</title>
		<link>http://healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com/2009/10/22/upcoming-clinical-governance-and-related-conferences-from-healthcare-events/</link>
		<comments>http://healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com/2009/10/22/upcoming-clinical-governance-and-related-conferences-from-healthcare-events/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:08:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Healthcare Events have announced the following eight clinical governance and related conferences for 2009/10:
1. Strengthened Appraisal and Revalidation  1 Dec 2009
2. Clinical Budget Ownership  8 Dec 2009
3. Patient Experience  9 Dec 2009
4. Effective Clinical Director  20 Jan 2010
5. Patient Reported Outcome Measures  21 Jan 2010
6. Quality, innovation Productivity and Prevention  21 Jan 2010
7. Developing Quality [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com&blog=2956173&post=2009&subd=healthcaregovernancereview&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Getting (more) women on boards</title>
		<link>http://healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com/2009/10/22/getting-more-women-on-boards/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:27:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Harriet Harman, minister for Women and Equality, has told the Treasury Select Committee that the Britain’s boardrooms must have more women on them.
Speaking on Tuesday 20 October in relation to how boards of City firms could improve Britain’s economic performance through boardroom diversity, she told the Committee &#8220;If you want to make sure you don&#8217;t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com&blog=2956173&post=2005&subd=healthcaregovernancereview&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Governing the NHS 2010 and beyond &#8211; consultants appointed to write the new guidance</title>
		<link>http://healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com/2009/10/18/governing-the-nhs-2010-and-beyond-consultants-appointed-to-write-the-new-guidance/</link>
		<comments>http://healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com/2009/10/18/governing-the-nhs-2010-and-beyond-consultants-appointed-to-write-the-new-guidance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 09:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Readers may recall that the 2003 Department of Health guidance Governing the NHS: Guidance for boards is being ‘refreshed’ (see the following post).
According to Elisabeth Buggins, Chair of NHS West Midlands and the Board Development lead for the National Leadership Council “The National Leadership Council has recognised the critical role boards play in addressing the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com&blog=2956173&post=2044&subd=healthcaregovernancereview&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Notable quote: Happy boards</title>
		<link>http://healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com/2009/10/17/notable-quote-happy-boards/</link>
		<comments>http://healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com/2009/10/17/notable-quote-happy-boards/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 12:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;A happy board is probably not effective.&#8221;
Dr Graham Rich, CEO, University Hospitals Bristol NHS foundation trust
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		<title>CQC CEO wants to &#8220;ring alarm bells in the boardrooms&#8221; of poorly performing organisations</title>
		<link>http://healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com/2009/10/17/cqc-ceo-want-to-ring-alarm-bells-in-the-boardrooms-of-poorly-performing-organisations/</link>
		<comments>http://healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com/2009/10/17/cqc-ceo-want-to-ring-alarm-bells-in-the-boardrooms-of-poorly-performing-organisations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 11:57:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has published performance ratings for 2008/09 all 392 NHS trusts in England. Their assessment, also known as the ‘annual health check,’ shows big improvements for patients. According to the CQC, there is a reduction in MRSA and Clostridium difficile, and more people are:
- seen in A&#38;E within four hours;
- receiving treatment [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com&blog=2956173&post=1996&subd=healthcaregovernancereview&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<link>http://healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com/2009/10/17/governance-of-health-and-safety-the-need-to-ensure-safe-systems-of-operation-and-to-carry-out-risk-assessments/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 08:36:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Halcki MBE (David.Halicki@btinternet.com), independent health and safety consultant and former NHS safety professional, believes that NHS boards and managers should learn lessons from the following industrial laundry incident. In particular, he is urging boards to ensure that NHS organisations have safe systems of operation in place and carry out risk assessments both in relation to any laundry services [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com&blog=2956173&post=1992&subd=healthcaregovernancereview&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Healthcare Inspectorate Wales publishes 2008-09 Healthcare Standards Reports</title>
		<link>http://healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com/2009/10/17/healthcare-inspectorate-wales-publishes-the-2008-09-healthcare-standards-reports/</link>
		<comments>http://healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com/2009/10/17/healthcare-inspectorate-wales-publishes-the-2008-09-healthcare-standards-reports/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 08:14:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In May 2005 the Welsh Assembly Government published Healthcare Standards for Wales, setting out a common framework to support the NHS and partner organisations in providing effective, timely and quality services across all healthcare settings. The standards are focused on improving the experience of patients and service users and placing them at the centre of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com&blog=2956173&post=1988&subd=healthcaregovernancereview&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>South Tees FT needs Deputy Director of Healthcare Governance and Quality: Closing date 23 Oct 2009</title>
		<link>http://healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com/2009/10/10/south-tees-ft-needs-deputy-director-of-healthcare-governance-and-quality-closing-date-23-oct/</link>
		<comments>http://healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com/2009/10/10/south-tees-ft-needs-deputy-director-of-healthcare-governance-and-quality-closing-date-23-oct/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 12:50:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following a major Trust-wide review of their Governance structures, South Tees are looking for someone to provide the strategic leadership and corporate management of Clinical Governance within the Healthcare Governance Directorate. This will involve working closely with the Medical Director and Director of Nursing and Patient Safety. It will also involve working with the Head [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com&blog=2956173&post=1979&subd=healthcaregovernancereview&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Developing an effective, forward-looking NHS board to drive the organisation to success</title>
		<link>http://healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com/2009/10/10/developing-an-effective-forward-looking-nhs-board-to-drive-the-organisation-to-success/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 12:27:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the presentations at the Health Service Journal&#8217;s (HSJ) Leadership Forum 2009 (30 November in Central London) is titled Board level leadership: Developing an effective, forward-looking board to drive the organisation to success
Led by Elisabeth Buggins, Chair NHS West Midlands, and Mike Cooke, Chief Executive, Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, the presentation will aim to:
1. level leaders [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com&blog=2956173&post=1975&subd=healthcaregovernancereview&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mid Staffs &#8211; &#8220;It is the job of boards and board members to make choices and balance priorities&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com/2009/10/10/mid-staffs-it-is-the-job-of-boards-and-board-members-to-make-choices-and-balance-priorities/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 10:59:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Health Service Journal (HSJ &#8211; 8 October 2009) has reported on the publication by Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust of a report into the conduct and performance of its previous chief executive Martin Yeates. Mr Yates resigned in May this year after the Mid Staffs board received the report.
According to the HSJ, the report says leadership and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com&blog=2956173&post=1965&subd=healthcaregovernancereview&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;The fun theory&#8217; &#8211; could it work for healthcare governance?</title>
		<link>http://healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com/2009/10/10/the-fun-theory-could-it-work-for-healthcare-governance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 10:35:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to an initiative by Volkswagen, &#8220;&#8230;something as simple as fun is the easiest way to change people’s behaviour for the better. Be it for yourself, for the environment, or something entirely different, the only thing that matters is that it’s change for the better.&#8221;
As an example, check out this 2 minute video.
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		<title>Notable quote: The Tories on NHS accountability</title>
		<link>http://healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com/2009/10/10/notable-quote-the-tories-on-nhs-accountability/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 10:24:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to Andrew Lansley, Conservative shadow health secretary writing in the Health Service Journal 8 October 2009, a Conservative government &#8220;&#8230;..will require accountability at all levels for results, measured in terms of patient outcomes rather than distorting targets.&#8221;
If the rhetoric can be realised, Healthcare Governance Review believes that this approach would significantly help strengthen NHS [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com&blog=2956173&post=1958&subd=healthcaregovernancereview&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Liverpool trust fined £48k for legionella &#8216;complacency&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 08:39:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital NHS Trust was ordered to pay nearly £48,000 following an HSE investigation at the NHS Trust’s hospital on Thomas Drive, Liverpool.
The investigation found unsafe levels of legionella in the water supply system for the showers, baths and sinks at the hospital. But it was not able to conclude whether [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com&blog=2956173&post=1984&subd=healthcaregovernancereview&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Audit Commission &#8216;High Performing Board&#8217; events for existing and aspirant foundation trusts</title>
		<link>http://healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com/2009/10/10/audit-commission-high-performing-board-events/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 08:25:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following the success of their high performing board seminars in 2007 and 2008, the Audit Commission is holding a series of seminars between 22 October and 26 November dedicated to foundation trusts and aspiring foundation trusts across England.
Continuing the theme of the high performing board while focusing upon quality, the seminar will support executive and non-executive directors [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com&blog=2956173&post=1967&subd=healthcaregovernancereview&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Auditors’ Local Evaluation and Use of Resources 2008/09</title>
		<link>http://healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com/2009/10/10/auditors%e2%80%99-local-evaluation-and-use-of-resources-200809/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 07:48:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Each year, the Audit Commission assesses how well NHS trusts and primary care trusts manage their resources and deliver value for money. For 2008/09, these assessments have been based on the Auditors&#8217; Local Evaluation (ALE) for NHS trusts and Use of Resources (UoR) for primary care trusts. The Commission has published a national report outlining [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com&blog=2956173&post=1970&subd=healthcaregovernancereview&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Banking crisis: what lessons for NHS governance?</title>
		<link>http://healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com/2009/10/07/the-banking-crisis-what-lessons-for-nhs-governance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 22:12:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the October 2009 issue of Healthcare Finance from the Healthcare Financial Management Association (hfma), there&#8217;s a short article by Peter Reeves, NHS non-executive director and former finance director, setting out his views on what lessons NHS governance can learn from the banking crisis.
The hfma article is based on a longer article submitted by Peter. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com&blog=2956173&post=1951&subd=healthcaregovernancereview&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Health Care Risk Report October 2009</title>
		<link>http://healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com/2009/10/07/health-care-risk-report-october-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:35:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Swine flu is continuously on the NHS agenda at the moment, and Health Care Risk Report presents a different view this month. Professor Hilary Pickles, a public health and risk expert, points out that lessons can be learned from the rush to set up antiviral distribution centres over the summer &#8211; not least that the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com&blog=2956173&post=1955&subd=healthcaregovernancereview&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Governing trainee doctors &#8211; what boards should know</title>
		<link>http://healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com/2009/10/04/governing-trainee-doctors-what-boards-should-know/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 18:36:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a commonly held assumption that early August is an unsafe period to be admitted to hospital in England, as newly qualified doctors start work in NHS hospitals on the first Wednesday of August.
The figure below, for example, depicts real data for the whole of 1996 for a major acute hospital that was a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com&blog=2956173&post=1941&subd=healthcaregovernancereview&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Notable quote: A doctor&#8217;s view on patient quality and outcomes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 17:04:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
&#8220;In the twenty first century most doctors and nurses still haven&#8217;t got much of a clue about the quality of care we&#8217;re providing, the effect we have on you, what happens to you after you&#8217;re discharged, whether we&#8217;ve made your life better or worse or even if we&#8217;ve killed or cured you. We operate and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com&blog=2956173&post=1938&subd=healthcaregovernancereview&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CQC report &#8211; How healthcare organisations manage personal data</title>
		<link>http://healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com/2009/09/28/report-how-healthcare-organisations-manage-personal-data/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:54:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has published The right information, in the right place, at the right time: A study of how healthcare organisations manage personal data.
According to the CQC, &#8220;Good information governance means having efficient and effective structures, policies and practices in place to ensure the confidentiality and security of the records of patients [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthcaregovernancereview.wordpress.com&blog=2956173&post=1927&subd=healthcaregovernancereview&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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