Governance Around Working Together 19 th June 2018 Dr Vijay Rawal - - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Governance Around Working Together

19th June 2018 Dr Vijay Rawal - Medical Director Haverstock Healthcare Ltd

What are we going to cover?

• What is governance?
• Characteristics of Good Governance
• Governance before starting to work together
• Governance after starting to work together

Governance

‘The action or manner of governing a state,

• rganization, etc.’

Oxford Dictionaries

Characteristics of governance

Bad

• No Freedom of

Expression

• Lack of Transparency
• Corruption
• Conflicts of Interest
• Not enough checks and

balances (monitoring)

• Inequity
• No strategic plan
• Lack of

knowledge/competence Good

• Inclusivity
• Fairness
• Transparency
• Responsiveness
• Consensus
• Equity
• Efficiency
• Accountability
• Vision and Strategy

Governance before starting working together

• Corporate Governance
• What is the legal basis of your working together?
• How are decisions going to be made?
• Who is going to oversee or manage the organisation/services?
• Is it a Election or a selection process?
• Remember regulation 6 of the CQC
• Do you need to be CQC registered or change or add to your registration?
• Polices and Procedures – Are they localised to meet the service needs?

Governance before starting working together

• Corporate Governance (cont.)
• Understand and appreciate the differences between shareholders, board

directors and executive directors

• Understanding roles and responsibilities (including companies house)
• Leadership
• Vision, Objectives, Strategy
• Business Development Plan
• Clinical Governance
• Integrated Services – Map out responsibility across the pathway – will help

with indemnity

Governance before starting working together

• Financial Governance
• Accountability
• Fairness
• Agreements
• Remuneration
• Sustainable
• HR Governance
• Recruitment checks and processes
• Induction

Governance after starting to work together

• Key systems and processes
• Incident Reporting (remember Duty of Candour)
• Complaints handling
• Communication (meetings etc)
• Audit programme
• Safeguarding
• Monitoring performance
• Risk Assessments

Governance after starting to work together

• Financial Governance
• Book keeping and Accounting
• Companies House Returns
• Information Governance
• GDPR
• Data Sharing Agreements

Governance after starting to work together

• Clinical Governance
• Evidence of how you reassure yourself that staff working within your
• rganisation/service are up to date, competent and using the appropriate

guidance

• Corporate Governance
• Feedback from Service Users and Staff

Questions