Importance Of Clinical Governance | Report

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Importance Of Clinical Governance
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The condition of the health sector today has changed drastically over a
few years. Nowadays, it is observed that the patients who are aware of their rights
and hospitals or clinical staffs have responded quite well to the public demands.
The legal system, along with their disciplinary measures, has also posed a
significant impact on the overall health sector. Moreover, the intensification of
cross-border and transborder flow of people, goods and services prevents
provision of active healthcare service. All of these factors led to an urgent need to
broaden the health agenda of public for ensuring protection as well as promotion
of human health. Here, the concept of Clinical Governance comes into play.
Clinical governance aims to ensure patient safety and also providing adequate
and equal healthcare service to them.
Clinal governance is a world-wide system through which healthcare
organizations such as the National Health Service (NHS) are accountable for
improving the quality of healthcare service continuously while ensuring a high
quality care by creating facilitative environment that promotes best
outcomes(Mohaghegh et al, 2016).
The roles of Clinical Governance are as follows:
 To set a clear vision, develop a strategic direction and building an
influential organizational culture that delivers consistent, safe and high-
quality clinical care to people.
 It helps to lead a transparent organizational culture by effective
communication of service values with patients and also facilitating patient
engagement by providing them sufficient access to healthcare.

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 Ensuring robust clinical governance arrangement and its implementation
across the service for effectively supporting and empowering the
workforce, and also assist the health practitioners in providing safe and
quality health service to patients.
 It helps in understanding the underlying clinical risk factors for providing
healthcare service, ensuring proper addressing and activity of the controls
and mitigation strategies.
 Helps in monitoring and evaluation of every aspect of health care through
regular assessment and reviewing of the clinical quality and safety
performance data.
Effective nursing leadership is essential for providing high-quality healthcare
to patients and also has a direct impact on the reduction of mortality rates(Quinn,
2017). There are different approaches for effective leadership, such as
Transformational leadership, servant leadership, and autocratic leadership.
Transformational leaders can encourage others and boost their confidence,
strengthen employee morale and job satisfaction, thus resulting in increased
productivity. The servant leaders ensure maximum productivity for their
organization by listening to the needs of the staff members(Giltinane, 2015).
Lastly, autocratic leaders are considered ideal in emergencies, as the leader
decides on his own, without thinking about the opinions of other staff.
Transformational leaders help to change a workplace to stimulate success.
They motivate the staff members and sets objectives for the workplace. This
leadership style can also be employed in the nursing field. The nurse leaders