Clinical Governance may be defined as βthe framework through which healthcare organisations are accountable for continuously improving the quality of their services and safeguarding high quality of careβ.
Good systems of clinical governance benefit everyone. In many countries around the world it's a statutory requirement of healthcare providers to seek quality improvement through clinical governance.
But if you can't get access to care quality information fast enough, or are too overloaded with reporting requirements to action improvements, does that accountability extend to finding a better way?
Some thoughts on how to align clinical governance with technology to support the delivery of quality improvement in healthcare π