title: Clinical governance. Thin on the ground.
abstract: Clinical governance is being led by two people, usually a GP and a nurse, in most of the PCGs that responded to the survey. A fifth of the leads for clinical governance had no experience of working on quality issues. Nearly a third of respondents felt that their health authority had provided poor support or none at all. Only 10 PCGs had identified a clinical governance budget. No PCG was working with a finance manager to develop clinical governance and only five were working with an information manager.
authors.affiliation: King's Fund Primary Care Programme.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hayward
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Rosen
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Dewar
mesh_terms: D003625:Data Collection; D005194:Family Practice / Q000592:standards*; D008485:Medical Audit / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000592:standards*; D006113:United Kingdom