Operations
Clinical governance
Formal definition
Clinical governance is a charity operations term for managing staff capacity, operational logs, and data security procedures to maintain delivery resilience.
What this actually means for you
Use Clinical governance to guide live decisions: track team hours, log project dependencies regularly, and maintain compliant record destruction schedules, with ownership and reporting agreed before delivery changes and risk reviews.
Example: In a live quarterly cycle, Clinical governance is applied like this: the service manager reviews the team capacity register and approves timesheet submissions before allocating resources. The team then records the decision trail in team templates, reporting packs, and operating checklists.
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