title: Healthcare governance for accountability and transparency.
abstract: Healthcare governance is a framework for improving quality of care and access by increasing accountability and promoting transparency for the excellent outcome of healthcare, shared learning and sharing. Healthcare governance plays a vital role in improving patients' experiences, decreasing disparities in healthcare and shared learning from the experiences by promoting openness and culture of accountability. Service users' involvement, in the process of health planning and delivery, is an opportunity to improve their experience. It is now time to introduce strategies and policies in Nepal to implement the concept of healthcare governance to improve the quality of care and access.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  clinical governance; healthcare governance; openness; accountability; service users.
authors.affiliation: Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom. Bachchu. Kaini@gstt.nhs.uk
authors.forename: B K
authors.initials: BK
authors.lastname: Kaini
mesh_terms: D054976:Clinical Governance / Q000458:organization & administration; D006285:Health Planning / Q000458:organization & administration; D006291:Health Policy; D006801:Humans; D009390:Nepal; D058996:Quality Improvement; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D012941:Social Responsibility