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01-10-2017 | Editorial
Clinical Governance in Italy: ‘Made in England’ for Import?
Authors:
Livio Garattini, Anna Padula
Published in:
Applied Health Economics and Health Policy
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Issue 5/2017
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Excerpt
Popular phrases find their way into healthcare jargon, and having negotiated domestic political manipulations they are then exported abroad. Clinical governance (CG) is an example. CG was first launched at the end of the previous millennium in the UK by the socialist government, after conservatives had been in power for almost 20 years. Cited also in a WHO Report [
1]) at the start of the new millennium as an innovative conceptual approach to managing and improving the quality of health care, CG was then adopted into the political jargon of other European countries. In Italy, a National Draft Bill [
2]) focused on CG is still pending in parliament after almost a decade of discussion in its passage through a succession of politically diverse governments. To explore the diffusion of the CG concept in Europe, we first conducted a literature search. …
