Clinical Effectiveness
BGS Clinical Effectiveness
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Welcome to the clinical effectiveness section of this website - presided over by the BGS Clinical Practice Evaluation Committee.
In this section, we provide links to clinical guidelines produced by both the BGS and outside sources; links to organisations at the forefront of producing clinical guidance and audit e.g. NICE and SIGN.
We also encourage health professionals to submit their clinical effectiveness work, be it surveys, benchmarking or service development for presentation at our BGS Scientific Meetings.
Clinical Effectiveness Defined
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Clinical effectiveness is the extent to which specific clinical interventions do what they are intended to do, i.e maintain and improve the health of patients securing the greatest possible health gain from the available resources - Source: NHS Quality Improvement Scotland (NHS QIS 2005)
Clinical Effectiveness is described as the right person (a suitably qualified professional) doing:
- the right thing (evidence based practice)
- in the right way (skills and competence)
- at the right time (providing treatment/services when the patient needs them)
- in the right place (location of treatment/services)
- with the right result (clinical effectiveness/maximising health gain).
Clinical effectiveness is thinking critically about what you do, questioning whether it is having the desired result, making a change to practice. It is based on evidence of what is effective in order to improve patient care and experience. This can happen at NHS Board, directorate, department or team, or individual level.
The BGS' round of 2013 