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Four actions for engaging boards in their Clinical Governance role
Four actions for engaging boards in their Clinical Governance role

We know the critical role that healthcare governing boards play in driving improvements in care quality and safety.  Cultivating board understanding and focus can be challenging, however.  We are still a long way from all boards having the same comfort with clinical governance as they do with corporate governance. This article suggests four key actions to support boards to enact their responsibilities for care quality.

Boards
Clinical governance
Clinical risk
Compliance
Continuous improvement
Culture
An effective safety culture requires safety sub-culture design
An effective safety culture requires safety sub-culture design

‘Safety culture is like a garden: to bloom, it must be planned, planted and  tended.’ This is a key message from a systematic review of safety culture and an excellent reminder that culture is never ‘set and forget’.

Clinical care
Clinical governance
Clinical risk
Job satisfaction
Psychological Safety
Safety Culture
The complexity of medication error requires a systematic solution
The complexity of medication error requires a systematic solution

Medication errors remain a stubbornly challenging issue in the provision of safe care. Although we often associate inpatient settings with medication issues, this comprehensive review studied the triumvirate of prescribing, dispensing and administration to determine common causal factors of mistakes and inaccuracies, leading to incidents in ambulatory and outpatient settings.

Clinical care
Clinical governance
Clinical leadership
Clinical risk
Safety
Highlighting the impact of incorrect patient identification is fundamental to correcting the problem
Highlighting the impact of incorrect patient identification is fundamental to correcting the problem

Correct identification of patients has been recognised as a critical safety issue for many years. A recent report from the UK’s Health Services Safety Investigation Body (HSSIB), compiles evidence from various investigations and sources to explore the factors contributing to patient misidentification in healthcare. The report defines 'positive patient identification' as the accurate identification of a patient to ensure they receive the correct care. Whereas, 'patient misidentification' occurs when a patient is wrongly identified as someone else, leading to potential harm from incorrect or missed treatment.

Clinical governance
Clinical risk
Person-centred care
Safety Culture
Standards
After 20 years of root cause analysis, why do the same key risks remain?
After 20 years of root cause analysis, why do the same key risks remain?

We spend a lot of time on root cause analysis (RCA) – and have done it for 20 years or so. But key clinical risks remain stubbornly consistent.

Clinical governance
Clinical risk
Improvement
Incident management
Safety Culture
Systems Thinking
To reduce healthcare quality variation, focus on the process
To reduce healthcare quality variation, focus on the process

Variation in healthcare quality is an ongoing issue. This study seeks to understand how differences in hospital practices and policies can lead to disparities in consumer outcomes and overall care quality. The authors compared process and outcome measures to detect variation and characteristics of hospitals with lower variation.

Clinical governance
Clinical leadership
Clinical risk
Measurement
Variation
The building blocks of a patient safety culture
The building blocks of a patient safety culture

We frequently discuss the importance of a ‘safety culture’ in human services – but what are the key ingredients? This scoping review synthesises evidence from multiple studies to identify key factors contributing to patient safety culture. Although the review focused on hospitals, the findings are relevant for all human service leaders seeking to build or strengthen their culture of safety.

Clinical governance
Clinical leadership
Clinical risk
Job satisfaction
Safety Culture
AI and Patient Safety – a match made in…?
AI and Patient Safety – a match made in…?

Artificial intelligence is coming at us – no matter where we sit on the human services’ spectrum. The potential care and service applications as well as risks are many and varied. When we look through the consumer safety lens – what do we see?

AI
Clinical risk
Risk management
A handy checklist for evidence-based consumer safety system components
A handy checklist for evidence-based consumer safety system components

Many years on from the Mid Staffordshire report, avoidable patient harm continues to occur in the UK (and the rest of the world). There continue to be new inquiries and reviews into serious patient safety scandals, all with recurring themes, including failure to listen to patients or learn from previous investigations, a corrosive blame culture, a lack of effective leadership and an unresponsive regulatory framework.

Clinical governance
Clinical risk
Leadership
Safety
When board quality focus goes up, so does quality performance
When board quality focus goes up, so does quality performance

The Institute of Medicine (IOM) reports ‘To Err Is Human’ and ‘Crossing the Quality Chasm’ prompted healthcare leaders to address the patient safety crisis by advancing the systems, teamwork and improvement science needed to deliver safer care to patients. 

Clinical governance
Clinical risk
Leadership
Risk management
Safety
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