Clinical Governance

Is your practice compliant?

Your compliance with Clinical Governance will be
questioned with the introduction of the Care Quality
Commission, HTM 01–05 and the increase in PCT
practice inspections. Would you like to know how
you would fare when your practice is inspected?

The DBG Clinical Governance Audit

The DBG Clinical Governance Audit is the all important
experience of a practice audit visit rather than the reliance
on a self audit which can lead to a false sense of compliance.
The audit is designed to give you reassurance that you have
fulfilled your obligations.

The areas the DBG audit are:

• Your premises including access, facilities, security,
  fire precautions, third parties and business continuity
• Information Governance including Freedom of
  Information Act, manual and computerised records,
  Data Protection and security
• Training, documentation and certificates
• Radiography including IRR99 and
  IR(ME)R2000 compliance
• Cross infection and decontamination including
  HTM01–05 compliance and surgery audits
• Medical emergencies including resuscitation, drugs,
  equipments and protocols
• Waste disposal and documentation and storage
• Practice policies and written procedures.

The audit will take 2–3 hours of your Practice Manager’s
time depending on the number of surgeries.We will require
access to all areas of your practice and the audit will cost
£375 for a two surgery practice location and £75 per
additional surgery. A report will be despatched to you
confirming the results of our audit.

If you have an inspection imminent then we suggest that
you arrange your DBG audit at least one month before
the inspection to allow you time to carry out any
recommendations.

The DBG Clinical Governance Package

Following the audit you may wish to have access to the DBG
Clinical Governance Package with on-line compliance manuals.
The Clinical Governance Package consist of three units:

• Clinical Package
  
• Health & Safety Package
  
• Radiation Protection Service (including RPA and MPE).

Thousands of DBG members already use the DBG Health &
Safety Package and the DBG Radiation Protection Service.
The Clinical unit covers all other areas of clinical compliance.

As well as being able to complete compliance documentation
you are also kept up to date with changes in legislation and
provided with ongoing support and advice.

All three, Clinical Package, Health & Safety Package and
Radiation Protection Service can be purchased individually
at £210 each for a three year contract. The cost of the total,
all three, equates to £17.50 per month for peace of mind.