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Regulation 3. News & blogs Sheena Wright NHS 24 Director of Nursing and Care / Executive Lead for Clinical Governance and Quality Improvement. Integrated care and system working

Clinical governance is “a system through which NHS organisations are accountable for continuously improving the quality of their services and safeguarding high standards of care by creating an environment in which excellence in clinical care will flourish." Topics From putting in place arrangements for remote board meetings, to paring back board meetings to make room for urgent COVID-19 related agenda items, trusts are adapting their governance arrangements swiftly to ensure directors and staff have the support they need.

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(Scally and Donaldson 1998, p.61) Clinical governance is an umbrella term. Briefings

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NHS staff need to ensure that the appropriate systems and processes are in place to monitor clinical practice and safeguard high quality of care. Good governance in today’s NHS 3.1 The context for improved governance The Government is instituting significant system change in the NHS.



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approach across all domains of governance, supporting their Working for us non-executive directors in developing an improvement focussed Join to Connect.

This report seeks to provide the Governance Board with a further update on progress in moving towards becoming a single strategic commissioner with NHS Shropshire CCG and in making a re-application to NHS England/Improvement on 30th April 2020. Those on NHS boards, developing new organisations and overseeing service changes have all been keen to understand how this will affect the way NHS organisations will be governed in the future. Peer support for local systems Foreword. Annual events

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Our influencing work Training & events Reports Foreword Quality Providers deliver Quality Improvement Aims 11 Governance and Assurance 12 The Governance Structure 13 1.