Clinical Governance:
What is it?
Clinical Governance refers to the system through which healthcare
organizations are responsible for ensuring high-quality care for patients. It
encompasses a variety of components, all aimed at improving patient
safety, quality, and experience.
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Key Components of Clinical
Governance
Patient Safety and Quality
Improvement
Risk Management
Involves identifying, assessing, and
Ensures patient safety by identifying,
managing risks and liabilities associated
assessing, and managing risks. Quality
with healthcare delivery.
improvement strategies are implemented
to enhance the overall patient experience.
Clinical Audit
Education and Training
A quality improvement activity that
Ensures staff have the necessary
evaluates clinical performance and
knowledge and skills to provide high-
identifies areas for improvement to ensure
quality care and support their ongoing
that best practice is being followed.
professional development.
Patient Safety and Quality
Improvement
Patient Safety
Quality Improvement
Ensures that patient harm is minimized by
Focuses on enhancing the overall patient
identifying and assessing risks, and
experience by measuring and improving the
implementing strategies to prevent them from
quality of care provided.
occurring.
Teamwork and Communication
Patient-Centered Care
Risk Management and Clinical Audit
1
Risk Management
Identify and assess risks associated with healthcare delivery and implement
strategies to prevent and manage them.
2
Incident Reporting
Encourage reporting of incidents to learn from errors and near misses and to
further identify and assess areas of risk.
3
Clinical Audit
Assess the quality of care provided by healthcare professionals and identify
areas for improvement to ensure that best practice is being followed.
Education and Training
Professional Development
Teamwork and Communication
Continuing education and training of
Effective teamwork and communication
healthcare professionals play a critical role in
training lead to early identification and
ensuring high-quality care is delivered.
resolution of patient care issues, and a better
patient experience.
Patient Safety
Diversity and Inclusion
Leadership and Management
1
Effective
Leadership
2
Strategic Planning
3
Performance
Management
Effective
Leadership that
implementation of
Regular monitoring
fosters a culture of
clinical governance
and assessment of
quality, safety, and
requires careful
performance helps
ongoing improvement
planning,
ensure that quality
is key to clinical
implementation, and
care is delivered and
governance.
monitoring.
that best practice is
being followed.
Putting it All Together
Overall goals of Clinical
Governance
How does this impact
patients?
•
Provide high-quality care for patients
•
Higher levels of satisfaction with care received
•
Minimize risk and improve patient safety
•
Better health outcomes and patient safety
•
Continuously improve quality of care
•
Higher likelihood of receiving
evidence-based, high-quality care