The Practice of Clinical Governance

How do you know your hospital is safe? As a healthcare leader, are you confident that the health service you manage and operate is at the forefront of good clinical governance? How can you introduce and foster systems to ensure the highest standards are preserved? This book offers a comprehensive and practical guide to developing and implementing clear strategies for ensuring best practice clinical governance in health services. Present and future healthcare leaders, health boards, executive teams, and clinician leaders can use this as a personal and instructional guide in building, monitoring, and improving the clinical governance systems that underpin their organizations. Using unique, expansive case study development techniques, each concept is fleshed out in an easy-to-understand format. Introducing the reader to crucial principles of clinical governance, each chapter builds on advanced concepts to crystallize a complete understanding from a practical perspective. Key learnings and common barriers to health service leadership that are explored in detail challenges and enables the reader to think laterally in overcoming these in their own organizations. The practicality of implementing clinical governance is presented from multiple stakeholder viewpoints within healthcare services. This allows the reader to appreciate the nuances and distinctions required when considering clinical governance systems from different perspectives and for different contexts.