Volume 9 Number 2 contents

Editorial

New structures for patient involvement: implications for clinical governance
R Baker

Research papers

New nursing home residents who have recently been discharged from hospital: survey of GPs' and home managers' need for information
M Jiwa et al.

General practitioner referral from the pre-admission clinic - a cautionary tale
J D McIntyre et al.

An audit of patient consent in orthopaedics
T Alwan and RNS Slater

Putting confidence into audit: using confidence intervals to set objective standards in primary care audits
K Hopayian and S Morley

The North Tees revalidation project - a progress report on the first pilot
R Thornham et al.

Clinical governance in action

The NHS - a complex organisation
M Shelly

Clinical governance - theory into practice for the West Northumberland Primary Care Group
WF Cunningham

Knowledgeshare

Web alert: finding references to healthcare books, reports and journal articles using the internet
P Fairbrother

Principles of quality improvement

Part One - Defining qaulity
R Baker

Protocol

Audit protocol: Part One: prevention of diabetic foot ulcers - the non-complicated foot
C Wheatley

Healthcare policy

An outline of The NHS Plan

Issues in common: view from America

The battle of good intentions: are patient privacy laws too restrictive for initiatives to improve quality of patient care?
AG Mainous and AW Chessman