We welcome organisations establishing links with our site, either through their Internet or Intranet sites, and encourage people to identify potential link organisations. These do not have to be national bodies like royal colleges, although they could be, but individual SHAs, PCTs or Trusts are welcome as well.

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http://www.alpha.nhs.uk/
ALPHA (Access to Learning for the Public Health Agenda), provides access to learning for public health for professionals and organisations; educational support through conferences, seminars, workshops and learning sets, presentations and publications, co-ordination of groups, skills training, facilitation and analysis of educational needs. ALPHA ensures that the appropriate people get together in a productive, structured and focused environment to maximise learning and enable decision making.

www.asa.uk.net
The Ambulance Service Association. The Association is the leading out-of-hospital emergency care organisation, offering corporate membership to these public sector ambulance services. This site offers information on our work with member services as well as offering a valuable resource for those interested in pursuing a career in the ambulance sector.

http://www.audit-commission.gov.uk/
The Audit Commission is an independent body responsible for ensuring that public money is used economically, efficiently and effectively.

http://www.bma.org.uk/
The British Medical Association is a professional association for doctors, representing their interests and providing services for its 127,000 plus members. This includes almost 3,500 from overseas and more than 13,000 who are medical students.

http://chain.ulcc.ac.uk/chain/index.html
CHAINs (Contact, Help, Advice and Information Networks) is a multidisciplinary network of people working in health and social care (current membership totalling 4,000). The aim of the network is to enable health professionals to exchange ideas and knowledge, and to facilitate networking between those who have common interests or complementary aspirations.

www.csp.org.uk
The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy is the professional, educational and trade union body for the UK's 40,000 chartered physiotherapists, physiotherapy students and assistants. It aims to support its members and help them to provide the highest standards of patient care.

http://www.gmc-uk.org/
The GMC is the regulator of the medical profession. Their purpose is to protect, promote and maintain the health and safety of the community by ensuring proper standards in the practice of medicine.

www.gurteen.com
The Gurteen Knowledge Management website is a resource site aimed at people who wish to transform the way that they work; the way that they manage and interact with other people in their organization and who wish to better leverage workgroup technology.

http://www.healthcarecommission.org.uk/Homepage/fs/en
The Healthcare Commission is an independent body, set up to promote and drive improvement in the quality of healthcare and public health. They aim to do this by becoming an authoritative and trusted source of information and by ensuring that this information is used to drive improvement.

http://www.healthcareworkforce.org.uk/
NHS National workforce Projects. The healthcareworkforce portal provides universal access to healthcare workforce planning information, knowledge, intelligence and skills development. It is also a communication environment and is aimed at supporting the healthcare workforce planning community across all sectors.

http://www.hcsu.org.uk/
The Health Care Standards Unit.
All NHS organisations are required to take the SfBH into account when developing, providing and commissioning healthcare and the Healthcare Commission will use the standards as a key component of their assessments. HCSU will be working with the NHS and the Department of Health to ensure the standards are useful to staff, patients and other stakeholders.

http://www.iqa.org/healthcare/
Institute of Quality Assurance Health and Social Care . The Institute of Quality Assurance (IQA) is a long established charity dedicated to the promotion of quality assurance particularly in the engineering industry.

www.isabel.org.uk
ISABEL is developed by the Isabel Medical Charity and it's primary objective is to help reduce diagnosis and decision error and provide clinicians with relevant knowledge in their workflow to help them improve the quality of care.

http://www.kingsfund.org.uk/
The King's Fund is an independent chritable foundation working for better, especially in London. They acrry out research, policy analysis and development activities. They also provide a number of clinical govenance reading lists

www.midwivesonline.com
midwivesonline.com Ltd is a global, midwifery led website that supports women, their partners and families with timely, accurate and professional information on all topics surrounding pregnancy and childbirth.

www.nagg.co.uk
National Audit and Governance Group. NAGG represent people from several national and regional backgrounds and healthcare sectors.The Group first came together at an informal meeting facilitated by NICE at their November 2000 Conference. This network group work towards sharing information and representing the clinical audit community.

http://www.ihs.ox.ac.uk/nchod/
National Centre for Health Outcomes Development (NCHOD).

www.ncas.npsa.nhs.uk
The National Clinical Assessment Service (NCAS), previously the National Clinical Assessment Authority, is a division of the National Patient Safety Agency. The Service was set up as one of the central elements of the NHS' modernisation plan to ensure the high quality of healthcare.

http://www.icservices.nhs.uk/ncasp//pages/default.asp
The National Clinical Audit Support Programme (NCASP) commissioned by the Healthcare Commission, manages the national clinical audits for coronary heart disease (CHD), diabetes and cancer. The aim is to provide the widest possible access to timely and reliable clinically endorsed audit data, through the delivery of a relevant and robust infrastructure.

http://www.ncchta.org/
The National Coordinating Centre for Health Technology Assessment (NCCHTA) manages, supports and develops the NHS HTA programme under contract from the Department of Health's Research and Development Division.

www.nelh.nhs.uk
The National Electronic Library for Health (NeLH) aim is to provide clinicians with access to the best current know-how and knowledge to support healthcare-related decisions.

www.nice.org.uk
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) is the independent organisation responsible for providing national guidance on the promotion of good health and the prevention and treatment of ill health. O n 1 April 2005 NICE joined with the Health Development Agency to become the new National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (also to be known as NICE).

http://www.nks.nhs.uk/
National Knowledge Service have a range of sources on different types of knowledge, aimed at different audiences - patients, clinicians, students. The mission of the National Knowledge Service is to ensure that all these sources of knowledge are brought together to let patients and professionals base their decisions on best current knowledge.

http://www.npsa.nhs.uk/
The National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) is a Special Health Authority created to co-ordinate the efforts of all those involved in healthcare, and more importantly to learn from, patient safety incidents occurring in the NHS.

http://www.npdt.org/
National Primary Care Development Team is a national team based in Manchester with an infrastructure of 11 NPDT centres across England dedicated to improving public services. The team works primarily in the NHS but an increasing volume of the NPDT's work involves multi-agency, multi-disciplinary groups looking at topics which are trans-societal.

www.npcrdc.man.ac.uk
National Primary Care Research and Development Centre is a multi-disciplinary, academically independent centre, established by the Department of Health in 1995 to undertake a programme of policy related research in primary care.

http://www.dh.gov.uk/
National Service Frameworks set national standards and identify key interventions for a defined service or care group; put in place strategies to support implementation; establish ways to ensure progress within an agreed time-scale and form one of a range of measures to raise quality and decrease variations in service, introduced in The New NHS and A First Class Service.

www.shef.ac.uk/scharr/ir/netting
Netting the Evidence. A ScHARR introduction to evidence based medicine on the internet.

http://www.nhsconfed.org/
The NHS Confederation is the only membership body for all NHS organisations. Members include over 95% of NHS trusts, primary care trusts and health authorities in England and Wales; health boards and trusts in Scotland; and health and social services trusts and boards in Northern Ireland.

www.nhsia.nhs.uk/phsmi/clinicalgovernance/
NHS Information Authority. A continually developing range of clinical governance tools to help practitioners monitor and improve the quality of care by highlighting areas for improvement.

http://www.institute.nhs.uk/
NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement
The NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement is a new and exciting venture which will provide an ambitious focus for new ideas, technologies and practices to improve services to patients, users and the public. From the outset, we will be receptive to the needs of the NHS, working as part of the wider NHS system to draw on the best skills and expertise to clarify solutions to the priority issues.

www.wise.nhs.uk
NHS Modernisation Agency WISE is a is a legacy repository for selected work of the NHS Modernisation Agency. The NHS Modernisation Agency has been dissolved and superseded by the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement.

http://www.networks.nhs.uk/
NHS Networksintends to connect people and places to ensure that the good things that are happening in the NHS are known by and influence as many people as possible.

www.nursingleadership.co.uk
Nursing Leadership Programme. Over the past two years, the NHS Leadership Centre has developed and managed a successful nurse leadership e-learning programme. Nurse leadership e-learning was developed as a pilot programme and concluded on 20th December, 2004.

www.nursing-standard.co.uk
Nursing Standard Online the professional home for nurses on the net. Provides information about professional development, courses, jobs, events and links to specialist nursing journals.

www.pifonline.org.uk
Patient Information Forum (PiF). PiF is an independent group united by a common purpose, the development, production, and dissemination of high-quality information for patients, carers, and their families.

www.thepatientsforum.org.uk
The Patients Forum provides a wide range of information relating to the patients' movement in the UK. Its primarily for member organisations, who represent the interests of people who use health services, to enable them to strengthen their work in informing and influencing decision- makers.

www.tpsc.org
The Patient Safety Collaborative (TPSC) was formed to promote a greater awareness and understanding of Patient Safety, in the Primary Care setting, and is committed to the continued development of practical working solutions that put control over managing events and incidents where it is most needed - at the front line and in the hands of the practitioner.

http://www.rcoa.ac.uk/
Patient Information Forum (PiF). PiF is an independent group united by a common purpose, the development, production, and dissemination of high-quality information for patients, carers, and their families.

http://www.rcoa.ac.uk/
The Royal College of Anaesthetists is the professional body responsible for the specialty of anaesthesia throughout the United Kingdom.

www.rcgp.org.uk
The Royal College of General Practitioners. Contains useful details about the College, including membership, examinations, activities, services and publications. The College is committed to the raising of professional standards.

http://www.rcm.org.uk/
The Royal College of Midwives is the only trade union and professional organisation run by midwives for midwives. It is the voice of midwifery, providing excellence in professional leadership, education, influence and representation for and on behalf of midwives.

http://www.rcn.org.uk/
The Royal College of Nursing represents nurses and nursing, promotes excellence in practice and shapes health policies.

http://www.rcog.org.uk/mainpages.asp?PageID=431
The Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecoclogy is dedicated to the encouragement of the study and the advancement of the science and practice of obstetrics and gynaecology.

http://www.rcophth.ac.uk/
The Royal College of Opthalomologists is responsible for promoting high standards of professional practice, setting curricula and conducting examinations, inspecting hospital eye units for their training suitability and providing professional support and advice for ophthalmologists.

www.rcpch.ac.uk
The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health objectives are to advance the art and science of paediatrics, improve standards of medical care to children, and to educate and examine doctors in paediatrics.

http://www.rcpath.org/
The Royal College of Pathologists mission is to promote excellence in the practice of pathology and to be responsible for maintaining standards through training, examinations and professional development.

http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/
The Royal College of Phychiatrists is the professional and educational body for psychiatrists in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland whose aims are to: advance the science and practice of psychiatry and related subjects; further public education in psychiatry and related subjects; promote study and research work in psychiatry and all sciences and disciplines connected with the understanding and treatment of mental disorder in all its forms and aspects and related subjects and publish the results of all such study and research.

http://www.rcr.ac.uk/
The Royal College of Radiologists benefits patients, by encouraging the highest standards in the medical specialties of Clinical Radiology (diagnostic imaging) and Clinical Oncology (cancer treatment).

http://www.rcslt.org/
The Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists'.

http://www.rpsgb.org.uk/
The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britian (RPSGB) is the regulatory and professional body for pharmacists in England, Scotland and Wales. The primary objective of the Society is to lead, regulate and develop the pharmacy profession.

http://www.roysocmed.ac.uk/
The Royal Society of Medicine aims to provide a broad range of educational activities and opportunities for doctors, dentists, and veterinary surgeons, including students of these disciplines; and allied health-care professionals. To promote an exchange of information and ideas on the science, practice and organisation of medicine, both within the health professions and with responsible and informed public opinion.

http://www.wales.gov.uk/subihealth/content/nhs/signposts/index.htm
Signposts – A Practical Guide To Public And Patient Involvement In Wales’. This new guide published by OPM and developed with the Welsh Assembly attempts to focus more on the strategic issues of developing capacity to undertake effective involvement work. It also looks at the leadership issues for NHS Boards making PPI a key priority for them and a reality for patients and communities.

http://www.smile-on.com/cg/cgscheme.php
Smile-on Clinical Governance Support Scheme for dentists. The scheme is designed to provide dentists with day to day support in implementing CG initiatives within their own practice. It consists of regular circulars, an introductory course online (or on CD) and a half-day seminar.

www.ukselfhelp.info
UK Self Help website is an up-to-date guide to over 850 UK self help groups and support organisations which provide information, advice and empathy for over 2000 conditions.

www.wisdomnet.co.uk
The WISDOM Centre. The WISDOM Centre provides educational materials to support health professionals in their life-long learning and professional development. Register to access excellent Clinical Governance resources.