title: Clinical governance: what it is, what it isn't and what it should be.
abstract: Clinical governance is as much about setting standards and putting in place management systems to achieve them as it is about poorly performing doctors. Medical Royal Colleges are well placed to support individual hospital doctors in setting and monitoring clinical standards appropriate to their specialty.
authors.affiliation: Royal Liverpool University Hospitals, London.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Gilmore
mesh_terms: D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D009313:National Health Programs / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards*; D010380:Peer Review / Q000592:standards*; D010815:Physician Impairment; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000592:standards*; D012955:Societies, Medical; D006113:United Kingdom