Clinical Governance

Clinical Governance is the way the Trust and individual members of staff ensure that patient care is of the highest quality. All staff have a responsibility for clinical governance.

Clinical Governance provides a framework to enable the Trust to monitor and improve standards of patient care, and covers systems and processes to improve quality, identifying and managing risks, and for continuing professional development.

Clinical Governance is about:

• Assuring service users, patients and carers that they will receive high quality care that meets their needs

• Effective team-working and excellent communication

• Ensuring standards and service guidelines are met

• Care is evidence based

• Effective record keeping

• Risks are effectively managed

Clinical Governance can improve patient care by:

• Identifying when things go wrong through incident reporting and preventing a reoccurrence

• Learning from complaints and investigations

• Ensuring staff are properly trained and supervised

• Auditing, monitoring and sharing good practice

• Involving patients and carers in decision making and treating them with dignity and respect.

Every year the Trust provides an annual health check declaration covering the areas listed below.   The Trust’s declaration is checked against a range of information and following the cross checking exercise the declaration is published in October. 

• Safety

• Clinical and cost effectiveness

• Governance

• Care environment and amenities

• Accessible and responsive care

• Patient focus

• Public health

The Healthcare Commission will provide the public with annual reports on the quality of services and care provided by the Trust.  The first annual report will cover the core standards but thereafter the Healthcare Commission will be reviewing the progress the Trust has made against developmental standards.  

Annual Health Check Declaration - 2007/08

Ealing Hospital has made a declaration to the Healthcare Commission assessing compliance with the Government's core standards for better health. We are publishing our declaration in order to share the information with our local community. 

This declaration is part of the annual health check carried out by the Healthcare Commission and the Commission will use many sources of information to cross check compliance declarations. 

In October 2008 the results of the annual health check will be published by the Healthcare Commission and Ealing Hospital will include the Trust’s rating on this website. Link to declaration 2007/08