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Audit in the British National Health Service
Author(s) -
BRADSHAW G.,
BRADSHAW P. L.
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
journal of nursing management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.925
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1365-2834
pISSN - 0966-0429
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2834.1995.tb00094.x
Subject(s) - audit , audit plan , government (linguistics) , politics , business , service (business) , control (management) , clinical audit , performance audit , joint audit , quality (philosophy) , information technology audit , health care , quality audit , internal audit , public relations , medicine , political science , accounting , management , economics , marketing , linguistics , philosophy , epistemology , law
This paper is about audit as it exists inside the broader framework of quality control within the National Health Service. It will define medical audit briefly and examine its antecedents in exploring why it was introduced. The paper will proceed to analyse the underlying economic and political reasons for the Government's strategy for audit, and assesses its contribution to the debate about quality in health care. The paper concludes by considering the future direction of audit arising out of the recent emphasis placed on multi‐professional clinical audit.