Clinical Governance in Gastroenterology

This manual offers a template for clinical governance in gastroenterology. It identifies 15 key clinical topics. Each is examined, with an introduction, significance, key clinical points, key therapeutic points, guidelines, access to services, risk management and health economics.

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Clinical governance is a central theme to recent NHS reforms. This book succinctly presents the key facts about gastrointestinal diseases and their management for primary care organisations general practices health authorities secondary care specialists and individual practitioners with commissioning and governance roles. A concise and handy reference tool it identifies key topics and the systematic presentation makes the text easy to use. Information based on research evidence has been compiled from diverse sources by GPs with extensive experience in gastroenterology enabling readers to understand the requirements of care of patients with gastrointerstinal disorders.