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CLINICAL GOVERNANCE STRATEGY TO SUPPORT CLINICAL SUPPORT EMPLOYED FOR NEW NURSING HOMES

1 Clinical Governance is a framework through which organisations are accountable for safeguarding high standards of care by creating an environment in which excellence in clerical care will flourish and continuously improving the quality of their services.

2 The core values of clinical governance are:

· The service users' experience is the central focus, which includes involving them in making decisions about their care and keeping them informed.


· A commitment to quality, which makes certain that professionals are up to date in their practice, are expertly supervised and develop an environment where learning is built into every day practice.


· Continuous improvement of services and care.


· A reduction of risk from clinical errors, adverse events and near misses, as well as a commitment to learn from mistakes and share that learning with others.

3 Each component of the strategy covers an aspect that will have direct or indirect impact on the delivery of clinical care to residents in the County Council's nursing homes. The components centre on improving the residents' experience of care by involving them and their carers in planning care, by continuously developing staff with training and education, by carrying out clinical audit and clinical effectiveness programmes, by ensuring the residents' Health and Safety with Risk Management and by developing clinical policies and procedures to support staff with delivery of care.

4 The Executive Member was pleased to enclose the use of care values to assist the development of a clinical governance strategy to support clinical staff employed by the County Council to enable the continued improvement in the quality of services provided for older people in the County Council's exiting residential and new nursing homes.

5 This supports Aim 5 of the Corporate Strategy.

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