H EALTH P LANNING & M ANAGEMENT L IBRARY

Australasian College of Health Service Management (NSW Branch)

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Reading List on Clinical / Corporate Governance

See also the Reading List on Health Governance Achieving Best Practice Leadership and Clinical Governance: The Key Role of Organisational Accountability Malcolm, Laurence, ACHSE Health Manager, Summer 2004 pp. 15-21 Analysing the Clinical Directorate System Gupta, Romesh, Vaidya, A and Campbell, Robert, British Journal of Healthcare Management, Vol. 14(9) September 2008 pp. 383-389 Better Quality, Better Health Care: A Safety and Quality Improvement Framework for Victorian Health Services Victorian Quality Council http://www.health.vic.gov.au/qualitycouncil/pub/im prove/framework.htm Beyond the Limits of Clinical Governance? The Case of Mental Health in English Primary Care Gask, Linda and others, BMC Health Services Research, Vol. 8 March 2008 http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/14726963-8-63.pdf Central Clinical Governance Unit Queensland Health, 2008 http://www.health.qld.gov.au/cpic/quality_strategy/ clinical_governance.asp Centre for Clinical Governance Research in Health http://www.med.unsw.edu.au/medweb.nsf/page/Cl inGov_About Clinical Directorates: Stakeholders Knowledge and Expectations Dunnion, Mary and Dunne, Elizabeth A, British Journal of Health Care Management, Vol. 10(1) January 2004 pp. 12-17 Clinical Governance (Definition) NSW Health Department Clinical governance is the term used to describe a systematic approach to maintaining and improving the quality of patient care within a health system. It is about the ability to produce effective change so that high quality care is achieved. It requires clinicians and administrators to take joint responsibility for making sure this occurs. http://www.health.nsw.gov.au/mhdao/clinical_gov ernance.asp Clinical Governance Office of Safety and Quality in Health Care, Department of Health, WA http://www.safetyandquality.health.wa.gov.au/initi atives/clinical_governance.cfm Clinical Governance for Nurse Practitioners in Queensland A Guide Queensland Health, Office of the Chief Nursing Officer, 2011 The Guide has been developed for nurse practitioners, health administrators and employers of nurse practitioners. http://www.health.qld.gov.au/ocno/nurseprac/guid eline.asp Clinical Governance Bulletin Royal Society of Medicine, Vol. 1(1) July 2000 Vol. 6(4) 2006 http://www.rsmpress.co.uk/cgb.htm Clinical Governance: Complexities and Promises Iedema, Rick, Braithwaite, Jeffrey, Jorm, Christine and others, pp. 253-278 in Workplace Reform in the Healthcare Industry: the Australian Experience, Stanton, Pauline, Willis, Eileen and Young, Suzanne, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005 362.10994 STA Clinical Governance Resources WISDOM Centre http://www.wisdomnet.co.uk/clingov.asp Clinical Governance Safety and Quality: An Overview of the Literature Travaglia, Jo and Braithwaite, Jeffrey, Centre for Clinical Governance Research in Health, UNSW, 2007 http://www.med.unsw.edu.au/medweb.nsf/resourc es/2007Articles1/$file/Cllinical+governance,+safet y+and+quality+monograph+030707.pdf

Clinical Safety, Quality and Governance NSW Health http://www.health.nsw.gov.au/csqg/index.asp Corporate Governance of Public Health Services: Lessons from New Zealand for the State Sector Perkins, Rod, Barnett, Pauline and Powell, Michael, Australian Health Review, Vol. 23(1) 2000 pp. 9-21 A Development Tool to Support Emerging Clinical Commissioning Groups with Their Governance Arrangements National Leadership Council, July 2011 http://www.nhsleadership.org.uk/images/library/file s/Commissioning/Development_Tool_to_support_ Clinical_Commissioning_Groups_with_Governanc e_FINAL_v1_0.pdf Doctors as Managers: Investors and Reluctants in a Dual Role Forbes, Tom, Hallier, Jerry and Kelly, Lorna, Health Services Management Research, Vol. 17(3) August 2004 pp. 167-176 From Quality Assurance to Clinical Governance Balding, Cathy, Australian Health Review, Vol. 32(3) August 2008 pp. 383-391 Clinical governance has evolved from a long history of quality programs in health care and is now the dominant approach to health care quality improvement. Governance for Health in the 21st Century: A Study Conducted for the WHO Regional Office for Europe World Health Organization, 2011 http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/00 10/148951/RC61_InfDoc6.pdf Greater Metropolitan Clinical Taskforce: An Australian Model for Clinician Governance Stewart, Graeme J, Dwyer, John M and Goulston, Kerry J, Medical Journal of Australia, Vol. 184(12) 2006 pp. 597-599 http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/184_12_190 606/stw10511_fm.html Guidelines for Developing Governance Arrangements for HealthOne NSW Services NSW Health, August 2011 HealthOne NSW is an integrated primary and community health initiative, bringing together GPs, community health and other health professionals in multidisciplinary teams. http://www.health.nsw.gov.au/pubs/2011/healthon e_guidelines.html Healthcare Boardss Role in Clinical Governance Victorian Quality Council, 2003

http://www.health.vic.gov.au/qualitycouncil/pub/im prove/healthcareboard.htm Identifying Variations in Quality of Care in Queensland Hospitals Duckett, Stephen J, Coory, Michael and SketcherBaker, K, Medical Journal of Australia, Vol. 187(10) 19 November 2007 pp. 571-575 Queensland Health, after the Bundaberg scandal, has transformed its clinical governance arrangements to include the use of statistical process control charts using routine data to provide a starting point for learning and subsequent action to improve the quality of care. http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/187_10_191 107/duc10459_fm.html Improving Quality and Safety: Progress in Implementing Clinical Governance in Primary Care Trusts: Report to the National Audit Office Health Services Management Centre, 2006 http://www.nao.org.uk/system_pages/idoc.ashx?d ocid=353da4b8-929b-4b62-9f7324eace133c7e&version=-1 Measurement, Monitoring and Clinical Governance Evans, Susan M and others, Medical Journal of Australia, Vol. 183(10) 2005 p. 543 http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/183_10_211 105/matters_211105_fm-3.html Measuring Progress in Clinical Governance: Assessing the Reliability and Validity of the Clinical Governance Climate Questionnaire Freeman, T, Health Services Management Research Vol. 16(4) November 2003 pp. 234-250 Organisational Governance Structures in Allied Health Services: A Decade of Change Boyce, Rosalie A, Australian Health Review, Vol. 24(1) 2001 pp. 22-36 An Overview of Clinical Governance Policies, Practices and Initiatives Braithwaite, Jeffrey and Travaglia, Joanne F, Australian Health Review, Vol. 32(1) February 2008 pp. 10-22 Patient Safety and Clinical Quality Program NSW Health http://www.health.nsw.gov.au/policies/pd/2005/PD 2005_608.html A Practical Handbook for Clinical Audit: London, Clinical Governance Support Team, 2005 http://www.wales.nhs.uk/sites3/Documents/501/Pr actical_Clinical_Audit_Handbook_v1_1.pdf Quality Governance in the NHS A Guide for Provider Boards

UK Department of Health, National Quality Board, March 2011 http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/ Publications/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/DH_ 125238 Quality Improvement in New Zealand Healthcare Part 7: Clinical Governance - An Attempt to Bring Quality into Reality Perkins, R, Pelkowitz, A and Seddon, M, New Zealand Medical Journal, Vol. 119 (1243) 13 October 2006 pp. http://www.nzma.org.nz/journal/1191243/2259/content.pdf A Review of Integrated Clinical Governance in the Context of Medical Revalidation: Organisational Readiness Self Assessment report for the Health Sector in England as at 31 March 2011 NHS Revalidation Support Team, October 2011 http://www.revalidationsupport.nhs.uk/files/ORSAr eport2010-11-FINAL.pdf Review of the Readiness of Appraisal and Clinical Governance to Support the Relicensure of Doctors Working Group on Medical Revalidation and Education, KMPG, commissioned by the Department of Health and the General Medical Council, 2008 http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/ Publications/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/DH_ 086436 Robust Clinical Review Process: The Catalyst for Clinical Governance in an Australian Tertiary Hospital Mitchell, IA and others, Medical Journal of Australia, Vol. 189(8) 2008 pp. 451-455 http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/189_08_201 008/mit11298_fm.html Shifting Clinical Accountability and the Pursuit of Quality: Aligning Clinical and Administrative Approaches Dobrow, Mark J, Sullivan, Terrence and Sawka, Carol, Healthcare Management Forum, Vol. 21(3) 2008 pp. 6-12

Clinical governance and accountability approaches that actively mesh clinical and administrative approaches at both system and local levels are more likely to be effective in improving quality of care. Strengthening Clinical Governance through Cultivating the Line Management Role Balding, Cathy, Australian Health Review, Vol. 29(3) August 2005 pp. 353-359 A Survey of Staff Attitudes and Comparative Managerial and Non-managerial Views in a Clinical Directorate Braithwaite, Jeffrey and Westbrook, Mary T, Health Services Management Research, Vol. 17(3) August 2004 pp. 141-166 Victorian Clinical Governance Policy Framework: A Guidebook VIC Department of Human Services, 2009 http://www.health.vic.gov.au/clinrisk/downloads/dh s_toolkit.pdf What is...Clinical Governance Starey, Nigel, Bandolioer, What is series, Vol. 1(12) April 2009 http://www.medicine.ox.ac.uk/bandolier/painres/do wnload/whatis/WhatisClinGov.pdf

Copies of these articles are available from the Library at a small charge. The first article is $11.00 then $5.50 each additional article. All prices are inclusive of GST. To obtain copies of articles or to borrow the books, please contact Sue Brockway, Librarian, by phone (02) 9805 0125 or fax (02) 9889 3099, by mail PO Box 341 North Ryde NSW 1670 or by email to: library@achsm.org.au