Quality in Health Care
December 1998 Volume 7 Supplement

This supplement to the journal Quality in Health Care complements a one day conference of the same title on Tuesday 10 November 1998 at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, London SW1, UK.
Any enquiries about the conference should be addressed to:
Ms Jane Lewis, email: JLewis{at}bma.org.uk; tel +44 (0) 171 383 6605; fax +44 (0) 171 383 6663, .

A synthesis of the group sessions at the conference will be published in Quality in Health Care March 1999 and on the journal website (www.qualityhealthcare.com). Session topics include: implementing protocol driven care; managing people to manage change; clinical governance; integrating managerial and professional activity; using outcome measures; evidence, effectiveness and process.

Editorial
Organisational change: the key to quality improvement
Fiona Moss, Pam Garside, Sandra Dawson

Papers
Celebrating teamwork
Jenny Firth-Cozens

Organisational context for quality: lessons from the fields of organisational development and change management
Pam Garside

Power and quality improvement in the new NHS: the roles of doctors and managers
Kim Sutherland, Sandra Dawson

Assuring high quality and evidence-based health care: a case study from HIV/AIDS services
Ewan Ferlie, D E Simon Barton, David Highton

Mapping out the patient's journey: experiences of developing pathways of care
Amanda Layton, Fiona Moss, Graham Morgan

Clinical governance: a quality duty for health organisations
Liam J Donaldson, J A Muir Gray

Promoting health care quality: what role performance indicators?
Trevor Sheldon

Can policy drive quality?
Rudolf Klein

Evolving quality in the new NHS: policy, process, and pragmatic considerations
Sheila Leatherman, Kim Sutherland

Different countries, different cultures: convergent or divergent evolution for healthcare quality?
Heather Buchan

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A fuller version of the article by Sheila Leatherman is published by the Nuffield Trust. Contact
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