Clinical governance

The Department of Health defines Clinical governance as “The system through which NHS organisations are accountable for continuously improving the quality of their services and safeguarding high standards of care”.

At Care UK, Clinical governance is central to our delivery of high quality care.  It enables an interface between service users, patients and public involvement and dependable local delivery as first set out in the NHS Plan. As outlined in our Clinical Governance Policy, Care UK is wholly committed to the principles of Clinical governance set out in the white papers A First Class Service: Quality in the New NHS and subsequent publications, An organisation with a memory and Building a safer NHS for patients – implementing ‘An organisation with a memory’.

Through our Clinical governance reporting structure, we direct and control our various functions and our subcontractors, in order to achieve Care UK’s organisational objectives and safely deliver continuously improving high-quality services.  We deliver care in a way that relates to the wider community and partner organisations, and in an environment in which excellence in clinical and social care will flourish – fulfilling lives.

For more information

For more information about our Clinical governance, click here to see our Annual Clinical Governance Report for 2009.

Click here to see our Annual Clinical Governance Report for 2008.

For details of our CQC ratings please click here.