Clinical Governance

What is Clinical Governance?

Clinical Governance(CG) is shorthand for all the Governance mechanisms which a Care Organisation puts in place to enable it to measure and improve the quality of care which it delivers.

Kindly, personal and professional clinical care depends above all on the attitude, morale, knowledge and competence of staff. So Shaw's CG Committee monitors these key areas and seeks to raise them to ever higher levels.

However, as well as influencing these inputs to the service, CG also measures the outputs:  the measured satisfaction (or otherwise) of patients/clients, the frequency of accidents, medication errors, untoward incidents etc as well as the condition of the care properties.

Shaw's CG Committee actively promotes a spirit of professional collaboration between local service managers by facilitating monthly Peer Group Review meetings at which local care managers are invited to discuss their concerns in a "no blame" spirit.

The Quality Audit (QA) Team

The QA team comprises very experienced nurses who have worked in the Mental Health, Learning Disabilities, Acute General Nursing, Dementia Care fields. They inspect and report on the performance and quality of care provided by every local service.