Clinical governance ensures that there is a clear understanding of accountabilities for care outcomes from staff to the board, who are responsible for ensuring services for every consumer are person-centred, connected, safe, and effective. An essential component of a health service’s broader organisational governance system effective clinical governance is now also expected in aged care, disability, and primary care.
Care for individual consumers is being increasingly shared amongst multiple providers. And yet, as this Perspective Brief identifies, there is no single view of clinical governance in a shared care model of care that can be used to ensure care is seamless and well-coordinated.