Discrimination in governance and leadership and the potential impact on patient care

"Leadership bodies which are significantly unrepresentative of their local communities, such as NHS Trust Boards, will have more difficulty ensuring that care is genuinely patient centred – with resultant failings in the provision or quality of services to specific local communities that have particular health needs, including BME communities and patients."

The “snowy white peaks” of the NHS: a survey of discrimination in governance and leadership and the potential impact on patient care in London and England
R Kline
Middlesex University
2014

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Well-led framework for governance reviews

"Monitor, CQC and NHS TDA have committed to developing an aligned framework for making judgements about how well led NHS providers are. By ‘well led’ we mean that the leadership, management and governance of the organisation assure the delivery of high quality care for patients, support learning and innovation and promote an open and fair culture." 

Well-led framework for governance reviews: guidance for NHS foundation trusts 
Monitor
May 2014

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Having quality as an item on the executive board agenda

"Having quality as an item on the executive board’s agenda allows them to review and discuss quality performance more often in order to improve their hospital’s quality management. Generally, and as this study found, having quality on the executive board’s agenda matters."

Is having quality as an item on the executive board agenda associated with the implementation of quality management systems in European hospitals: a quantitative analysis
D Botje, NS Klazinga, R Suñol, O Groene, H Pfaff, R Mannion, A Depaigne-Loth, OA Arah, M Dersarkissian, C Wagner
International Journal of Quality in Health Care, 2014, February 17, doi:10.1093/intqhc/mzu017

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Monitor: Regulating NHS foundation trusts

"This report examines whether Monitor’s regulation of NHS foundation trusts has been effective."

Monitor: Regulating NHS foundation trusts
A Morse, Controller and Auditor General
National Audit Office

February 2014

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Toward new models for innovative governance of biomedicine and health technologies

"To efficiently translate biomedicine and health technologies from the laboratory bench to the bedside, governance frameworks are having to change to take into account the complexity of the field, using new (and often) iterative regulatory processes."

Toward new models for innovative governance of biomedicine and health technologies
OECD Science, Technology and Industry Policy Papers No.11
December 2013

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International profiles of health care systems

"This publication presents overviews of the health care systems of Australia, Canada, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Japan, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States. Each overview covers health insurance, public and private financing, health system organization and governance, health care quality and coordination, disparities, efficiency and integration, use of information technology and evidence-based practice, cost containment, and recent reforms and innovations."

International profiles of health care systems
Edited by S Thomson, R Osborn, D Squires, M Jun
The Commonwealth Fund
November 2013

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Good governance for prison health in the 21st century

"Prisoners mostly come from socially disadvantaged segments of the community and carry a higher burden of communicable and noncommunicable diseases compared with people in the general population."

Good governance for prison health in the 21st century: a policy brief on the organization of prison health
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, World Health Organization
October 2013

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Helping people live better for longer

"This guide is designed to provide an overview of the Department of Health post-April 2013."

Helping people live better for longer
Department of Health
July 2013

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Review into the quality of care and treatment provided by 14 hospital trusts in England

"The purpose of this review was to determine whether there are any sustained failings in the quality of care and treatment being provided to patients at these trusts."

Review into the quality of care and treatment provided by 14 hospital trusts in England: overview report
Professor Sir Bruce Keogh KBE
National Health Service (NHS)
July 2013

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Continuous quality improvement

"Shared governance and continuous quality improvement (CQI) are concepts that have been re-introduced into the healthcare sector over recent decades through several iterations for the purpose of empowering point-of-care staff."

Continuous quality improvement: a shared governance model that maximizes agent-specific knowledge
V Burkosi, J Yoon
Nursing Leadership, 26 (Special Issue) May 2013: 7-16

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The changing national role in health system governance

"This study provides an overview of recent changes in the national government’s role in the governance of the health systems in 12 countries."

The changing national role in health system governance: a case-based study of 11 European countries and Australia
Edited by E Jakubowski, RB Saltman
World Health Organization (European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies)
April 2013

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Lessons from Europe: provider governance

"This Briefing outlines key insights from a Lessons from Europe seminar that examined the impact of recent reforms in hospital governance in Spain and the Netherlands."

Lessons from Europe: provider governance
NHS European Office
February 2013

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The Francis Report

"The final report of the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust Public Inquiry was published on Wednesday 6 February 2013....There are 290 recommendations in the report."

The Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust Public Inquiry
Chaired by Robert Francis QC
The Stationery Office
February 2013

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Good Governance Handbook

"This document has been designed to provide some key principles of good governance that can aid decision making at board level in healthcare providers."

Good Governance Handbook
J Bullivant, R Burgess, A Corbett-Nolan, K Godfrey
Good Governance Institute, Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership
January 2012

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Quality governance in the NHS

"This guide considers how to govern for quality, both in terms of driving continuous improvement across the organisation and ensuring that the essential levels of quality and safety are met."

Quality governance in the NHS - a guide for provider boards
National Quality Board
March 2011

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