Build a concise clinical protocol for clinical governance that colleagues can follow without further explanation.
Managing Clinical Governance and Assuring Medical Care Quality
Develop the judgement and the documentation needed to run clinical governance properly.
Course Overview
Variation in clinical governance between shifts and sites is where avoidable harm lives. Clinical staff will work around a process for this strand of health and pharmaceutical services that obstructs care, and they will be right to. Comparative studies of the wider health and pharmaceutical services agenda across sectors find the same handful of failure points recurring. Content is organised around the decisions practitioners actually face in clinical governance, not around theory headings. Ambition around the health and pharmaceutical services discipline outruns capacity unless the sequencing is deliberate. Participants come from operational and oversight roles, and both perspectives on the practice within health and pharmaceutical services are used deliberately. They leave able to brief senior management on clinical governance in terms that support a decision. Participants apply the health and pharmaceutical services capability to their own clinical service throughout, so the output is directly usable. The final session converts the week's work on this area of health and pharmaceutical services into commitments with owners and dates.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Design medication and treatment safety controls within clinical governance.
Align clinical governance with the wider objectives of the clinical service rather than optimising it in isolation.
Design a training and briefing approach that sustains competence in clinical governance.
Build the quality indicators for clinical governance that reflect patient outcome, not activity.
Audit clinical governance in practice, not only in policy.
Apply regulatory and licensing requirements governing clinical governance.
Who Should Attend
Finance managers costing services delivered through clinical governance.
Staff seconded into improvement work on clinical governance.
Health information and records staff supporting clinical governance.
Procurement and contracting staff whose agreements set obligations around clinical governance.
Nursing managers and clinical supervisors delivering clinical governance.
Clinical department heads responsible for clinical governance.
Course Modules
Clinical governance: regulation, licensing and accreditation evidence
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Escalation and decision rights in clinical governance
- Define the trigger that would require clinical governance to be redesigned.
- Identify the data already collected that bears on clinical governance.
- Assemble the accreditation evidence pack for clinical governance.
- Arrange the handover of clinical governance so capability survives staff changes.
Session 2Matching staffing on clinical governance to real demand
- Assign responsibility for keeping documentation of clinical governance current.
- Plan continuity of clinical governance during surge and outbreak conditions.
- Apply structured root cause analysis to the last adverse event involving clinical governance.
- Collect evidence on the present handling of clinical governance before proposing changes.
Clinical governance: confidentiality, consent and ethics
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Investigating an adverse event involving clinical governance
- Build the internal briefing that explains clinical governance to those affected.
- Confirm licensing and regulatory requirements applying to clinical governance are met.
- Set the review interval for clinical governance and who attends.
- Verify cold chain and storage conditions for materials used in clinical governance.
Session 2What patients actually experience during clinical governance
- Define acceptance criteria for clinical governance in advance.
- Confirm competence and continuing development for staff delivering clinical governance.
- Select quality indicators for clinical governance that measure outcome rather than activity.
- Confirm that reporting on clinical governance reaches the people who can act.
Clinical governance: staffing, capacity and demand
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1What to measure in clinical governance and what to ignore
- Match staffing levels on clinical governance to measured demand across the week.
- Identify infection transmission risks created by clinical governance and control them.
- Measure patient experience of clinical governance and feed it back to the team.
- Agree the smallest change to clinical governance that would be visibly useful.
Session 2Comparing clinical governance with recognised practice
- Audit clinical governance by observing practice, not by reading policy.
- Review whether clinical governance is aligned with the objectives of the clinical service.
- Reduce unwarranted variation in clinical governance between shifts and sites.
- Confirm the incident reporting route for clinical governance is quick and non-punitive.
Clinical governance: clinical process design and workflow
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Keeping supply and cold chain reliable for clinical governance
- Confirm patient data handled within clinical governance meets confidentiality obligations.
- Compare the cost of clinical governance with the cost of its absence.
- Close out actions on clinical governance rather than leaving them open indefinitely.
- Prepare the response for the most likely failure in clinical governance.
Session 2The evidence assessors will ask for on clinical governance
- Confirm that those complying with clinical governance understand why it exists.
- Build medication safety checks into clinical governance at the point of highest risk.
- Cost clinical governance per episode and identify avoidable waste.
- Confirm that contractual obligations around clinical governance are understood.
Choose the package that suits you
Silver Package
At least 3 people
- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
Gold Package
At least 3 people
- 5-night stay in a 5-star hotel
- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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