Resources

This tool from the Victorian Healthcare Association provides a tailored clinical governance checklist with the aim of assisting boards to strengthen their governance and oversight processes.

An article by Breaking New Ground, discussing Aged Care Quality Standard 8 - Organisational Governance - in terms of the roles and responsibilities of governing bodies, senior executives, operational managers, health practitioners, and consumers.

The Calvary clinical governance framework covers five key areas to ensure excellence across the continuum of care for patients, residents and clients: leadership and culture, consumer partnership, workforce, risk management, and clinical practice.

This practical guide informs the care and clinical governance for community services and descibes how care and clinical care services are managed.

This series of podcasts includes conversations to transform aged care. These podcasts are part of the Governing for Reform in Aged Care Program. (approx. 30 min each)

This blog from Maddocks on the Mic discusses aged care provider governance from a legal perspective focusing on recommendations from the Royal Aged Care Commission. (19 min)

This blog, written by Adjunct Professor Cathy Balding for Meaningful Ageing Australia, discusses clinical governance in relation to aspects of physical, emotional and spiritual health in aged care.

The Riverview Lutheran Rest Home framework provides a guide to inform clinical governance. This is done by setting out key structures, systems and processes that enable whole of organisation accountability for the delivery of quality, safe clinical care based principles of person-centred care.

This report describes how to establish a clinical governance framework, based on the key principles in aged care regulations and standards (e.g., the Aged Care Quality Standards and the Commonwealth Aged Care Act 1997). 

Given Australia’s ageing population and a growing demand for aged care staff, preventing occupational burnout within residential aged care facilities will continue to be a major challenge for the sector into the future. Researchers from Swinburne University explore some of the unique stressors faced by this workforce and suggest how organisations might address them to improve job satisfaction and worker retention.