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Clinical governance in mental health services

1. a chief executive's perspective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Peter Kennedy
Peter Kennedy*
Affiliation:
York Health Services NHS Trust, Bootham Park, York YO30 7BY
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This is one of three articles describing how one National Health Service (NHS) trust is tackling clinical governance. The first is by the trust chief executive, the ‘accountable officer’ in the White Paper The New NHS (Department of Health, 1997). The second is by the trust's director of research and development whose responsibilities include assisting clinical directorates to carry out an annual programme of improvements in clinical effectiveness. The third paper is by the mental health lead clinician’ for clinical governance.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 23 , Issue 12: The Journal of Trends in Psychiatric Practice , December 1999 , pp. 711 - 714
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Copyright © 1999 Royal College of Psychiatrists

References

Department of Health (1997) The New NHS: Modern, Dependable. Cmnd 3807. London: The Stationery Office.Google Scholar
Firth-Cozens, H. (1993) Stress performance and medical mistakes. In Medical Accidents. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar
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