Governance and Management in Healthcare

This assignment delves into the crucial aspects of governance and management within the healthcare system. It outlines a framework for effective governance, highlights key principles such as accountability and transparency, and analyzes both the strengths and weaknesses of existing systems. The paper emphasizes the importance of robust governance in delivering quality healthcare services to all individuals.

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Governance in health care involves the formation of several measures to improve the
quality of health care services. It focuses on developing trustworthy relationship with the
management.Governance and management in health care systems involves the dedicated
approach of the nurses and the clinicians in delivering quality care to all their patients (Gauld,
2014).This assignment demonstrates the framework, key principles and the strength and the
weaknesses of governance and management in providing health care service.
Framework
Governance in health care systems play a significant role in the development of
appropriate rules for policies and programs in order to improve the functioning and the provision
of health care services in order to achieve the aims and objectives in the health care sector.
Hence, it is quite challenging for the government authorities to provide proper access to all the
individuals. There are several processes that can be operated in order to provide quality outcome.
There are times when properly designed systems do not work efficiently according to the
expectations (Hastings et al., 2014).The framework plays an important role in the assessment of
the policies in the health care and the performance of evaluation of the efficacy of health care
systems.
Key principles
Healthcare access is a basic right of all the individuals and there should be no
discrimination in providing healthcare services to all the individuals. The principles of
governance in healthcare services involves proper decision making skills along with the
characteristics of accountability, safety and professional maturity in providing equality health

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care services to all the patients.It also focusses on shaping engagement of residents around
several issues.It also focusses in the formation of policies by the governemntal organizations.
Strength and weakness
The strengths of governance in the health care services are transparency in the
formatiion and development of policies.There has been a proper provision and arrangement in
provididng appropriate and efficient services.There has been a proper response in meeting the
needs and the requirements of the health needs of the general public.Good health governance
focusses on the empowerment of health of the citizens and the formation of effective health
programs. The formation of governance policy involves developing partnerships between the
corporate and the clinical sectors. It also focuses on the identification and providing support to
the management team and developing proper decision making skills (Maier, 2015).It also works
effectively in reducing corruption in the health industry.
The weaknesses of the governance in healthcare system are thet the civil society is not
able to socialize and guide the residents to play an important role in governance.Proper training
is required for the nurses and other health care professionals in improving the quality of
healthcare services. There are times when the hospital staff is not willing to take up the role of
management when required; they just only focus on the roles and responsibilities assigned to
them. But, there is a need to organize several improvement sessions to make sure that leadership
and clinical governance should be the responsibility of all the staff in the healthcare department.
(Smith, Latter & Blenkinsopp, 2014).

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References
Gauld, R. (2014). Clinical governance development: learning from the New Zealand
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Hastings, S. E., Armitage, G. D., Mallinson, S., Jackson, K., & Suter, E. (2014). Exploring the
relationship between governance mechanisms in healthcare and health workforce
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Maier, C. B. (2015). The role of governance in implementing task-shifting from physicians to
nurses in advanced roles in Europe, US, Canada, New Zealand and Australia. Health
policy, 119(12), 1627-1635.Tenbensel, T., & Burau, V. (2017). Contrasting approaches to
primary care performance governance in Denmark and New Zealand. Health Policy.
Smith, A., Latter, S., & Blenkinsopp, A. (2014). Safety and quality of nurse independent
prescribing: a national study of experiences of education, continuing professional
development clinical governance. Journal of advanced nursing, 70(11), 2506-2517.