Rethinking clinical audit : psychotherapy services in the NHS

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    • Davenhill, Rachael
    • Patrick, Matthew

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Rethinking clinical audit : psychotherapy services in the NHS

edited by Rachael Davenhill and Matthew Patrick

Routledge, 1998

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

Clinical audit can be a powerful tool for change, but is often perceived as externally-imposed time-wasting. Focusing on applications of clinical audit in psychoanalytic psychotherapy NHS services, the authors examine why audit is resented, how it can be 'reconstructed' as a useful tool for clinicals, and provide real-life examples of good practice. More than a simple 'how-to', this book provides new rnderstanding of a persistent problem in health-care organisations and will be of interest to all mental health staff, trainees and service managers.

Table of Contents

1 Psychotherapy services, healthcare policy and clinical audit 2 The audit fixation: some issues for psychotherapy 3 Clinical audit and conflict 4 Kaizen and the process of audit within an NHS psychotherapy unit 5 The Manchester experience: audit and psychotherapy services in north-west England 6 Audit and survival: specialist inpatient psychotherapy in the National Health Service 7 Audit and research 8 Evaluating the outcome of a community-based psychoanalytic psychotherapy service for young people: one-year repeated follow-up 9 Clinical practice guidelines for the psychotherapies

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