We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. Find out more about cookies Continue. Clinical governance covers activities that help sustain and improve high standards of patient care. Clinical governance is an umbrella term. It covers activities that help sustain and improve high standards of patient care. Nursing staff may already be familiar with some of these activities, quality and safety improvement, for example.
What is different is the effort to bind these activities together and make them more effective. Health care organisations now have a duty to the communities they serve for maintaining the quality and safety of care. Whatever structures, systems and processes an organisation puts in place, it must be able to show evidence that standards are upheld.
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Risk Management:. Quality Management:. Quality Assurance:. Healthcare Performance Office:. Clinical Privileging:. Policies and Procedures:. Hospital Ethics Committee:. Subscribe to our mailing list to get the updates to your email inbox Please enter a valid email. Entered email already exists. It is vital that staff caring for patients have the knowledge and skills they need to do a good job. It is for that reason that they are given opportunities to update their skills to keep up with the latest developments as well as learn new skills.
Care for patients should be based on good quality evidence from research. The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence NICE is responsible for providing national guidance on the promotion of good health and the prevention and treatment of ill health. If a Trust is to offer the highest quality care it is important that they work in partnership with patients and carers.
This includes gaining a better understanding of the priorities and concerns of those who use our services by involving them in our work, including our policy and planning. A Trust needs to have highly skilled staff, working in an efficient team and in a well supported environment. Traditionally, clinical governance has been described using 7 key pillars. Although it has been refined over the past few years, this approach remains the easiest to remember and to describe at a trainee interview level.
It is also the approach that your interviewers are most likely to expect from you since this is what they would have learnt too. In practice, it means:.
The aim of the audit process is to ensure that clinical practice is continuously monitored and that deficiencies in relation to set standards of care are remedied. Risk Management involves having robust systems in place to understand, monitor and minimise the risks to patients and staff and to learn from mistakes. When things go wrong in the delivery of care, doctors and other clinical staff should feel safe admitting it and be able to learn and share what they have learnt.
This includes:.
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