Let's move on up: Clinical governance is a central plank of the government's drive to improve the quality of patient care

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Clinical governance is central to the government's move to improve quality of patient care. Two new agencies are to be set up, the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) and the Commission for Health Improvement, with a range of national service frameworks aimed at setting, delivering and monitoring patient care standards. The new NHS statutory duty of care will mean that chief executives will be personally accountable. Nurses are at the forefront of many areas of clinical governance and it is a chance for them to use it to improve patient care.

Analysis, Health care reform

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Gout: its causes, symptoms and treatment

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Providing patients suffering from gout with nutritional information and teaching them to recognize early warning signs can help reduce the incidence and severity of symptoms. Nurses are ideally placed to educate patients, however patient behaviour is difficult to manage outside the hospital environment. Gout is caused by hyperuricemia, resulting in the formation of urate crystals at the location of joints. Drug therapy can help reduce the levels of uric acid in the bloodstream and reduce the severity of symptoms.

Care and treatment, Gout, Hyperuricemia

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