Making clinical governance work (BMJ, 2004)

Summary

To be effective, clinical governance should reach every level of a healthcare organisation—it requires structures and processes that integrate financial control, service performance and clinical quality in ways that will engage clinicians and generate service improvements.

In this article for the BMJ, the authors argue that because clinicians are at the core of clinical work, they must be at the heart of clinical governance. They look at problems with the prevailing model of clinical governance and describe an alternative approach.