Advancing Quality: Total Quality Management in the National Health Service explains how TQM might be applied successfully in the NHS and discusses the factors which will predict its successful implementation. It outlines the approaches to quality assurance that are appropriate to a highly professionalized service like the NHS. Illustrated throughout with examples of putting TQM into practice, it provides models which include both the content of, and the organization for, TQM. The book will be of interest to both professional and general managers in the NHS and all staff who are directly or indirectly engaged in developing and implementing quality assurance in the health care sector. It will also be essential reading for those engaged in quality development as practitioners or in research and teaching in public sector work. Advancing Quality: Total Quality Management in the National Health Service is an authoritative text for all those involved in quality assurance issues.