title: Clinical governance in primary care.
abstract: The government's stated top priority for the NHS is the quality of care of patients and there now exists a new duty of quality on all those providing care, accompanied by a drive for greater accountability to the public of clinical decision making. The process which governs these initiatives is termed clinical governance.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Drage
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D006801:Humans; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000592:standards*; D011787:Quality of Health Care / Q000592:standards*; D013222:State Medicine / Q000592:standards*; D006113:United Kingdom