Clinical governance in healthcare can be hard to describe in a few sentences. There are many components to it all working together to ensure safe, effective and well-led services are provided. Here’s my graphic on what clinical governance is; it can be used to help people understand all the elements included in it and understand the part they play in maintaining it

Feel free to use and thank you to Lisa Houlihan, Head of Nursing, Patient Safety and Quality of Care, Southern Health & Social Care Trust for her input into it