Clinical governance review Available to Purchase

Health governance, healthcare quality and continuous clinical and managerial improvement are all closely related concepts. Health care providers have a moral duty to care for patients both effectively and with care and compassion. Doing this in health services with increasingly stretched resources poses particular challenges.

This review presents a narrative from the six articles selected for this issue, examining some of the key issues and proposing practice changes to enhance levels of safe, efficient, compassionate care.

Appropriate education, training and self-regulation are the factors related to the concept of professionalism. The professions of law and medicine embrace these precepts and...