Clinical Governance course for Oral Health

This session outlines the principles of clinical governance, including how clinical governance works for individual clinicians, and how clinical governance is applied to whole organisations to assure and improve quality. This session supports the development of leadership in clinical settings.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this session you will be able to:

• Explain how individual clinicians can use governance principles to improve the quality of their care
• Describe the essential components of a structured governance plan within a hospital directorate or GP practice
• Evaluate regional and national factors that impinge on local governance requirements
• Demonstrate how you contribute to the development of leadership by identifying how you would assure the quality of service for patients