Clinical and Care Governance. 5.1 The Parties and Argyll and Bute Integration joint Board are accountable for ensuring appropriate clinical and care governance arrangements in respect of their duties under the Act. The Parties will have regard to the principles of the Scottish Government’s draft Clinical and Care Governance Framework, including the focus on localities and service user and carer feedback.
Clinical and Care Governance. 7.1 Clinical and care governance is a system that assures that care, quality and outcomes are of a high standard for users of services and that there is evidence to back this up. It includes formal structures to review clinical and care services on a multidisciplinary basis and defines, drives and provides oversight of the culture, conditions, processes, accountabilities and authority to act, of organisations and individuals delivering care.
Clinical and Care Governance. 5.1 Except as detailed in this Scheme, all strategic, planning and operational responsibility for Services is delegated from the Parties to the Integration Joint Board and its Chief Officer.
Clinical and Care Governance. The arrangements for clinical and care governance agreed by the Parties are:
Clinical and Care Governance. 8.1 The Parties and the IJB are accountable for ensuring appropriate clinical and care governance arrangements for Services provided in pursuance of integration functions in terms of the Act. The Parties and the IJB are accountable for ensuring appropriate clinical and care governance arrangements for their duties under the Act. The Parties will have regard to the principles of the Scottish Government’s draft Clinical and Care Governance Framework including the focus on localities and service user and carer feedback.
Clinical and Care Governance. 5.1 The Health Board’s Chief Executive is responsible for clinical governance, quality, patient safety and engagement, supported by the Health Board’s professional advisers. This responsibility is delegated to the Chief Officer. The Chief Officer, as part of the Health Board’s senior management team, will establish appropriate arrangements to discharge and scrutinise those responsibilities. These arrangements will link to the Health Board-wide support and reporting arrangements, including the systems for reporting of serious clinical incidents.
Clinical and Care Governance. 5.1. Except as detailed in this Scheme, all strategic, planning and operational responsibility for Services is delegated from the Parties to the IJB and its Chief Officer for operational responsibilities through the Service Delivery Framework.
Clinical and Care Governance. 8.1 Effective clinical and care governance arrangements need to be in place to support the delivery of safe, effective and person-centred health and social care services within integrated services.
Clinical and Care Governance. 8.1 The Parties understand that clinical and care governance is the process by which accountability for the quality of health and social care is monitored and assured, supporting staff in continuously improving the quality and safety of care and ensuring that wherever possible poor performance is identified and addressed. Effective clinical and care governance arrangements need to be in place to support the delivery of safe, effective and person-centred health and social care services within integrated services. Clinical and care governance for integrated health and social care services requires co- ordination across a range of services, (including procured services) so as to place people and communities at the centre of all activity relating to the governance of clinical and care services.
