Clinical Governance Quotes

There is a pervasive lack of accountability in medicine that extends from the most newly qualified doctor right through the most senior professors.

Managers of hospitals over the years have been increasingly recruited from outside the health service, and although their experience of running a supermarket chain might allow them to balance the books, it does not mean they have any insight into how a ward should be managed and patients best served.

If you're getting different prescriptions from different doctors, there has to be some sort of check and balance in there somewhere.

The present system of protecting NHS patients was a bit of a shambles.

If we are going to keep patients safe, then we have to make sure that doctors are able to learn from mistakes.

We need an NHS with fewer managers, fewer contractors and more power (rather than choice) to patients - with the input of the real experts: healthcare professionals.

Go to any hospital, you'll find wards that are run by senior nurses with matrons. The point is do they have the power, do they have the responsibility inside the hospital?

A whole range of things are done to ensure services remain safe and sustainable because that is the absolute paramount duty of the health board.