Board Quality/Clinical Governance Committee
Example Reporting Schedule Overview
Without a clear purpose, quality and clinical governance reporting happens in a vacuum. We spend inordinate amounts of time preparing reports - only to find that no discussion takes place, or the data are misinterpreted.
The purpose of quality and clinical governance data is tied to the questions your board needs to answer about care quality and how it's being supported - to enact their governance role. Are we doing the right things? Are we getting the right results? And for these questions to make sense - we have to know what the right 'things' are: our clinical governance systems and processes; and what the 'right' results are: our definition of high-quality care and services.
I developed the example reporting schedule overview to help with sorting out what should be reported when. Of course it should be adapted for organisation's specific external and internal reporting requirements. But it's a good basis for developing a more detailed plan of which measures should be reported when.
A tool for developing an annual quality and clinical governance reporting schedule
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Based on my Qualityworks' 'Strategic Quality System', the example Board Quality/Clinical Governance committee reporting schedule overview suggests how quality and clinical governance reporting can be spread across an annual calendar of meetings to make reporting more meaningful and manageable.
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Reporting is structured within four care quality goals: Personal, Safe, Connected, Effective, including objective and subjective data; and clinical governance system effectiveness.
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As with any example tool, the schedule should be adapted for your organisations' specific requirements.