Clinical Governance

Clinical Governance at MHC is fundamental to the provision of consistent, quality, responsive patient/service-user led care. The clinical governance agenda drives the continuous improvement in service provision and how this is delivered.

Clinical Governance’s function is to ensure safe, high quality care from all involved in the patient/service user’s journey to ensure they remain the central focus and priority. The term clinical governance is an umbrella term for differing components that when combined ensure effective governance and audit, some of which are as follows:

• Patient, public and carer involvement and interaction
• Strategic Capacity and Capability
• Risk management, incident reporting, prevention and control of risk
• Staff management and performance
• Education and training
• Clinical effectiveness and clinical audit
• Information management
• Communication, internally and externally
• Leadership, throughout the organisation
• Team working

Care Standards Inspectorates monitor the completed audits as part of their inspection process. The Procedure Manual is an active working document which is regularly reviewed and amended to meet the developing needs of the company

Clinical Governance is both for non-clinical and clinical staff and acknowledges the contribution of everyone’s efforts in the delivery of excellence. This approach ensures the lifelong learning ethos is culturally central to all. The production of quality is inclusive of collective responsibility, patient/service user safety and recognising personal and team achievements.

At MHC the use of clinical governance is to ensure we not only meet minimum standards but to achieve far more than this.