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Is there enough ‘clinical’ in clinical governance?
Is there enough ‘clinical’ in clinical governance?

Is clinical governance lagging behind corporate  governance, despite years of focus? This article argues that healthcare governance and management are still skewed towards corporate and administrative functions. 

Clinical care
Clinical governance
Clinical leadership
Management
The Victorian Safety Culture Guide
The Victorian Safety Culture Guide

The Victorian Safety Culture Guide (VSCG), from Safer Care Victoria, supports healthcare leaders to measure and monitor their organisation’s safety culture;  and is also a useful tool for other sectors to adapt and apply to develop their safety cultures. 

Clinical governance
Clinical risk
Leadership
Safety Culture
Creating an upward spiral of care quality and staff satisfaction - together!

All human service sectors rely heavily on a common success factor: people. Care providers and consumers form a symbiotic relationship. They are two sides of the same coin. This paper explores how this relationship can be designed to create a systematic ‘upward spiral’ of improved staff satisfaction and care quality.

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
Are your people doing what they’re good at?: A Case Study
Are your people doing what they’re good at?: A Case Study

As finding and keeping the right staff continues to challenge human services’ ability to provide quality care, this case study explores a critical component of staff satisfaction and performance. Are the Right People in the Right Seats? delves into the process of aligning employee skills and roles for organisational success.  

Clinical governance
Improvement
Leadership
Management
Teamwork
He Ara Whiria - The woven path: Indigenous co-governance of a healthcare service
He Ara Whiria - The woven path: Indigenous co-governance of a healthcare service

In this webinar, Tarati and Jenny presented He Ara Whiria (the woven path), a partnership model of co-governance that is in place at Te Toka Tumai (previously Auckland District Health Board). They discussed some of the challenges and opportunities that arise when weaving an indigenous worldview into the governance of a large public health service.

Care governance
Clinical governance
My ah-ha moment about making the case for quality
My ah-ha moment about making the case for quality

In this webinar, Dr Cathy Balding and her guest, Professor Peter Hibbert, discussed Peter's "ah-ha!" moment about making the case for quality.

Clinical governance
Quality improvement
Consistently great care requires great systems to support people to be great
Consistently great care requires great systems to support people to be great

Over the past three decades, many health systems have sought to enhance care delivery. Despite various approaches such as quality improvement and lean management these efforts can fall short. Failures are often attributed to leaders and workers not doing the right things. This article argues that the real quality problems lie in the underlying systems staff work with. It says that human service organisations will be more successful if they focus on designing systems that support the delivery of high-quality care, rather than trying to fix the people working within them.

Clinical governance
Complex adaptive systems
Continuous improvement
Culture
Job satisfaction
Systems Thinking
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
A conversation about clinical governance, the bedside to the boardroom
A conversation about clinical governance, the bedside to the boardroom

In this webinar, Liza Houghton explored how leaders can enhance their clinical governance skills. Liza, whose career journey has taken her from clinical nurse to non-executive Director and founder of her own consultancy, shared her invaluable insights and experiences. Gain practical advice and learn strategies to strengthen clinical governance within your organisation from someone who has successfully navigated this path.

Clinical governance
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