title: Better documentation improves patient care.
abstract: This article is the sixth in a series of seven describing the journey within NHS Lanarkshire in partnership with the University of the West of Scotland to support nursing and midwifery leadership roles through Scotland's Leading Better Care programme. Preceding articles have provided an overview of the programme and discussed a range of staff development work programmes. This article describes work carried out on clinical documentation to promote delivery of the three quality ambitions of safe, effective and person-centred care.
authors.affiliation: Documentation, Practice Development Centre, NHS Lanarkshire, Hamilton, Scotland.
authors.forename: Patricia
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Kent
authors.forename: Karen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Morrow
mesh_terms: D004282:Documentation; D006801:Humans; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D013222:State Medicine; D006113:United Kingdom
keywords: Documentation; Leading Better Care; nursing care; nursing standards; patient care; quality improvement; record-keeping