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Setting the Scene
Chapter 6: Quality, Standards and Information
Responsibility for the quality of clinical care
National policy towards quality
Attitudes and policy begin to change
Audit
A national policy on audit
Other initiatives concerned with quality
Quality assurance
The `Patient's Charter'
Other activity intended to promote improvements in the quality of care
Poor co-ordination of systems for assuring quality
Information
Systems for collecting information concerning clinical performance
Monitoring
The role of the Department of Health
The role of the regional health authority
The role of the district health authority
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