Main description:

Do you know that 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 implement such systems and ensure the highest standards are preserved?
This book offers a comprehensive and practical guide to developing and implementing strategies for ensuring crucial elements of 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 a unique, expansive case study development technique, each concept is fleshed out in an easy-to-understand format. Introducing the reader to crucial principles of clinical governance, each chapter sequentially builds upon advanced concepts to crystallize a complete understanding in mind. Key learnings and common barriers to health service leadership that are explored challenge the reader to think laterally about overcoming these in their organizations.
The practicality of implementing clinical governance is presented from multiple vital points of crucial stakeholders within healthcare services. This allows the reader to appreciate the nuances and distinctions required when considering clinical governance systems from different perspectives.

Contents:

1) Introduction to Clinical Governance

2) Elements of clinical governance

3) How do you know your hospital is safe? Question for leaders

4) Impact of good clinical governance in a healthcare system

5) Clinical governance from Board perspective

6) Clinical governance from a patient/consumer perspective

7) Clinical governance for clinician leaders

8) Working with clinicians implementing clinical governance

9) Implementation, monitoring, review and improvement of clinical governance

10) Education, training and research in clinical governance

11) Summary and key learnings