Clinical Governance Support Service

Evaluating service performance for clinical governance.

Introduction The standards of service delivery should be those that allow you to practise as a competent clinician. You may be competent but be unable to perform or practise to a competent level if the resources available to you are inadequate, or other colleagues have insufficient knowledge or skills to support you. You cannot be expected to take all the responsibility for ensuring that the re...

Clinical Governance: Costs and Benefits

Clinical governance in primary care: participating in clinical governance.

Clinical governance in primary care: organisational development for clinical governance.

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Hospitals’ Readiness to Implement Clinical Governance

Background Quality of health services is one of the most important factors for delivery of these services. Regarding the importance and vital role of quality in the health sector, a concept known as “Clinical Governance” (CG) has been introduced into the health area which aims to enhance quality of health services. Thus, this study aimed to assess private and public hospitals’ readiness to impl...