He examines his own performance and plans his own education. Clinical governance demands reflection and life-long learning. It requires practitioners to learn to ask and then find the answers to their own questions. In clinical governance education and research are valued not as academic niceties but as an integral part of good patient care. In clinical governance the results of rigorously conducted research will be used to provide the standards of care that patients should expect.
Clinical governance is about technology.
It requires us to learn new ways of communicating and learning. It demands a capacity to embrace new ideas and learn new ways of dealing with old problems. In clinical governance the practitioner will work within a growing culture with its focus on rapid dissemination of information using computers and multi-media. The computer will replace pen and paper. Its impact on standards will be exponential.