title: Clinical governance and the potential implications for tissue viability.
abstract: This article explores how clinical governance can and will impact on tissue viability specialists. It highlights the principles of governance and what it means for healthcare organizations, and the different processes of application, including responsibilities, that will be adopted. The dimensions of clinical governance have been applied to the quality of care expected and given by staff as well as ways of assessing performance and ensuring that quality is everybody's business. It is up to us all as healthcare practitioners to ensure that we keep professionally up-to-date, enhance our education, research and development, and have a mechanism for monitoring and safeguarding our performance. The paper should promote discussion and provide food for thought regarding the application and full utilization of clinical governance.
authors.affiliation: Healthcare Risk Resources International Limited, Newcastle upon Tyne.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wilson
mesh_terms: D003659:Decision Making, Organizational; D006801:Humans; D008485:Medical Audit / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012308:Risk Management / Q000458:organization & administration; D013222:State Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006113:United Kingdom; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000628:therapy*