It is about valuing information especially when it leads to better care for patients. It is about learning together as much as working together. In clinical governance the student is also the teacher. The student chooses his own curriculum. 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.