The Practice of Clinical Governance: A practical Guide for Healthcare Leaders

ISBN-13: 9789811978951 / Angielski

Luis Prado; Sidney Chandrasiri

Opis

Do you know that your hospital is safe?

As a healthcare leader, are you confident that the health service you manage and operate is at the forefront of good clinical governance?

How can you implement such systems and ensure the highest standards are preserved?

This book offers a comprehensive and practical guide to developing and implementing strategies for ensuring crucial elements of best-practice clinical governance in health services. Present and future healthcare leaders, health boards, executive teams, and clinician leaders can use this as a personal and instructional guide in building, monitoring, and improving the clinical governance systems that underpin their organizations.

Using a unique, expansive case study development technique, each concept is fleshed out in an easy-to-understand format. Introducing the reader to crucial principles of clinical governance, each chapter sequentially builds upon advanced concepts to crystallize a complete understanding in mind. Key learnings and common barriers to health service leadership that are explored challenge the reader to think laterally about overcoming these in their organizations. 

The practicality of implementing clinical governance is presented from multiple vital points of crucial stakeholders within healthcare services. This allows the reader to appreciate the nuances and distinctions required when considering clinical governance systems from different perspectives.       

Spis treści

1)            Introduction to Clinical Governance

2)            Elements of clinical governance

3)            How do you know your hospital is safe? Question for leaders

4)            Impact of good clinical governance in a healthcare system

5)            Clinical governance from Board perspective

6)            Clinical governance from a patient/consumer perspective

7)            Clinical governance for clinician leaders

8)            Working with clinicians implementing clinical governance

9)            Implementation, monitoring, review and improvement of clinical governance

10)          Education, training and research in clinical governance

11)          Summary and key learnings

O autorze

Dr. Luis is an Associate Professor for Deakin University and has been actively involved in leading medical education and clinical teaching programs, regularly teaching medical students at the Epworth Clinical School. Luis is passionate about the opportunities and future directions for medical practice. He supports his vision at a more practical level by working actively as a General Practitioner in the community. Luis has been a General Practitioner since 1993 and has a particular interest in Sports Medicine, Geriatric Medicine, and Paediatrics. Dr. Associate Professor Luis Prado joined Epworth HealthCare in 2016 as the Group Director of Medical Services. Previously, he was the Director of the Medical Services at the Wesley Hospital, Brisbane since 2004 and the Chief Medical Officer for Uniting Care Health.

Dr. Sidney Chandrasiri is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators (FRACMA), a Fellow of the Australasian College of Health Service Management (FCHSM), Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD), and holds a Masters in Health Management and Certification in Health Informatics. 

Dr. Chandrasiri is the Deputy Chief Medical Officer and Group Director, Academic and Medical Services at Epworth HealthCare, previously a Board Director of the Healthcote Health Board of Management and a Sentinel event reviewer for The Department of Health in Victoria, Australia. She has medical management experience in public and private health care organizations across Australia and New Zealand.