This unique Clinical Governance course is designed for new and aspiring Healthcare Directors, Senior Executives and Clinician Managers wanting to gain a foundational knowledge of the clinical governance duties and responsibilities for Boards and Directors. 

• Executives accepting their first healthcare board director role.
• Those who are considering accepting a directorship on a healthcare board.
• Healthcare Executives who report directly to a board.
• Healthcare Directors of smaller hospitals and other healthcare facilities such as aged care, community care, primary care including private and not-for-profit organisations.

This course may be undertaken in conjunction with the Foundations of Directorship program or as a stand alone educational and training course.

Through exploring a healthcare director’s role in establishing and ensuring effective clinical governance practices, you will develop a solid foundation from which to make more effective decision and ask the appropriate, relevant questions that will minimise your personal risk and improve the quality and safety of healthcare provided by your organisation.
Upon completion of the course, you will be able to:

• Explain your key roles and responsibilities as a healthcare director and that of the board, in clinical governance.
• Explain the purpose and essential features of clinical governance, such as accreditation compliance, National Standards, credentialing, incident management and monitoring of health service performance.
• Explain the clinical governance aspects of risk management, impacts on insurance, medico-legal and Coroner reporting obligations.
• Outline the board KPIs for monitoring clinical governance.
• Know the right questions to ask to understand if your health service is safe.

During this course, you will undertake interactive working sessions facilitated by practicing medical specialists with extensive experience of healthcare boards across the public and private sector.

Clinical Governance for Directors is a one day course made up of two sessions. 

The first session outlines the key clinical governance responsibilities of boards and its directors, the national and jurisdictional regulatory frameworks relating to clinical governance standards and compliance, and the history of board related clinical governance failures in Australia.

The second session outlines how the board monitors clinical governance performance and outcomes, using real-life case scenarios via simulation exercises, demonstrates how a board can ensure that they are fulfilling their obligations with respect to clinical governance and understand how to identify and respond to an impending clinical governance failure at their organisation.