1. INFORMATION LAW AND GOVERNANCE IN
CLINICAL PRACTICE
DR.ANJALATCHI MUTHUKUMARAN
PROFESSOR CUM VICE PRINCIPAL
ERA LUCKNOW MEDICAL COLLEGE AND HOSPITAL ,
ERA COLLEGE OF NURSING
ERA UNIVERSITY , LUCKNOW 226003

2. CONTENT OF THE TOPIC
• Introduction
• Definition
• 7 pillars of clinical Governances
• Improve the way for clinical governances
• Summary
• Conclusion
• References

3. LEARNING OBJECTIVE
• Introduction
• Definition
• List of information law used in health care services
• List of governance in health care services
• Discuss the 7pillars of clinical governances
• to summarize the topic
• To Conclude the topic
• To review the References

4. INTRODCUTION
• Clinical Governance is corporate governance designed specifically for the NHS.
• Implemented first in the late 1990s after the Bristol Hospital Heart scandal, it has
grown to be increasingly more important during the Covid-19 Pandemic.
• The 7 Pillars of Clinical Governance determine how successful a practice is.

5. 7 PILLARS OF CLINICAL
GOVERNANCE?
• The 7 Pillars of Clinical Governance are:
• 1) Education and Training
• It is the responsibility of the Trust to oversee the Continuing Professional
Development (CPD) of their clinicians. This means skills audits should be a regular
part of your project governance.

6. CONTINUED
• 2) Clinical Audit
• This is the review of the clinical performance of a practice. Audits ensure that
standards are maintained.
• 3) Clinical Effectiveness
• This reviews whether specific clinical interventions work, as well as being cost-
effective.

7. • 4) Staff Management
• You should ensure you are hiring the best quality staff and ensure they keep up with
their education and training throughout their time with you. This also
involves project management to ensure that all projects are governed correctly
and by the right people.
• 5) Patient and Public Involvement
• Transparency with your stakeholders is essential for good governance. Clinical
practice should never be shrouded in secrecy.

8. 6) RISK MANAGEMENT
• In clinical governance there are 3 components to risk management:
• Risk to patients - this requires: compliance with statutory regulations, regularly
reviewed and questioned systems, critical event audits, learning from complaints
and finally, medical ethics standards.
• Risk to practitioners - this means protecting your workers through access to
immunizations, creating an anti-harassment and safe working culture and keeping
employees up to date on basic safety including fire safety.
• Risk to organizations - this is essentially ensuring good governance at every
stage of your processes. This can be achieved by employing the best, creating a
safe environment and engaging with your stakeholders.
• There will likely be tiers to the priority of these risks but you should try to address all
these risks as often as possible.

9. 7) INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
• Information governance is important in every industry but the NHS deals with
special category data, patients information, and other sensitive information every
day.
• There are also their own data protection protocols on top of the GDPR. It is of the
utmost importance that all information is managed properly.

10. IMPROVE YOUR CLINICAL
GOVERNANCE?
• should make audits and reviews the final stage in every process
• Efficiency should be at the heart of clinical practice
• streamline procedures then it should be considered
• should ensure that information is shared effectively
• you have to take into consideration what is special category data
• keep open communication channels between all teams and departments.
• consideration in the modern era is technology.
• You need software and technology that is as secure as possible, especially when
patients’ and personnel’s information is involved.

11. SUMMARY
• Till we have discussed about the clinical goverances and its significance in health
care services to maintain the standard of patient services .

12. CONCLUSION
• I hope you all understand about the clinical goverances . You will able to apply the
knowledge of law in clinical services .

13. REFERENCES
• Clinical Governance:
• An RCN Resource Guide. London: RCN. Senge, P. M. (2006) The Fifth Discipline:
The Art & Practice Of The Learning Organization.
• New York: Currency Doubleday. Stonehouse, D. (2011) „Teamwork, Support
Workers And Conduct At Work.‟ British Journal of Healthcare Assistants. Vol 05. No
07. pp350-54.
• Stonehouse, D. (2012) „Why Complaints Are A Positive For Support Workers.‟
British Journal of Healthcare Assistants. Vol 05 No 07. pp39-40.