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Do you know that your hospital is safe? As a healthcare leader, are you confident that the health service you manage and operate is at the forefront of good clinical governance? How can you introduce and foster systems to ensure the highest standards are preserved?  This book offers a comprehensive and practical guide to developing and implementing clear strategies for ensuring best practice clinical governance in health services. Present and future healthcare leaders, health boards, executive teams, and clinician leaders can use this as a personal and instructional guide in building, monitoring, and improving the clinical governance systems that underpin their organizations.  Using unique, expansive case study development techniques, each concept is fleshed out in an easy-to-understand format. Introducing the reader to crucial principles of clinical governance, each chapter builds on advanced concepts to crystallize a complete understanding from a practical perspective. Key learnings and common barriers to health service leadership that are explored in detail challenges and enables the reader to think laterally in overcoming these in their own organizations.   The practicality of implementing clinical governance is presented from multiple stakeholder viewpoints within healthcare services. This allows the reader to appreciate the nuances and distinctions required when considering clinical governance systems from different perspectives and for different contexts.  

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Dr. Luis Prado is a Medical Graduate of the University of Queensland and is a  Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators,  Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of General Practitioners, Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives,  Fellow of the Australasian College of Health Service Management, and Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.  He has held several senior Healthcare and Medical Executive leadership roles across both the public and private healthcare sectors in Australia, along with key Board Director roles in the for-profit and not-for profit sectors. He is an Affiliate Professor for Deakin University and has been actively involved in leading medical education and research across private and public healthcare organisations and specialty colleges. Dr. Sidney Chandrasiri is a Medical Graduate of the University of New South Wales, a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators, Fellow of the Australasian College of Health Service Management, Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, and holds a Masters in Health Management and Certification in Health Informatics.  Dr Chandrasiri has held various Health Executive and Medical Leadership roles across private and public healthcare sectors in Australia, Board Director roles in both community health and hospital health service boards and has lectured on health system management to postgraduate students and medical trainees. She is a speaker at multiple medical forums across Australia and publishes widely in the field of medical leadership.        

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