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United Kingdom (UK)
United States of America (USA)
WHO (World health Organisation)
Australia

Australian Cochrane Centre

Australian Council for Safety and Quality in Health Care

Australian Council on Health Care Standards

Australian Patient Safety Foundation
Australian Resource Centre for Health Care Innovations
Better Health Channel

Clinical Governance, what is it? A Power Point presentation by Dr. Phillip Hoyle. North Sydney and Central Coast Area Health Service

The clinical leadership role in clinical governance: a guide for clinicians and health services. Victorian Quality Council

Final report of the review of the clinical governance arrangements at the Canberra Hospital. 2004

National Institute of Clinical Studies

Quality Improvement Council
Queensland Health clinical governance implementation standard. 2007

The Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne. Clinical Quality and Safety
State Government of Victoria: The Victorian Quality Council, Developing the clinical leadership role in clinical governance: A guide for clinicians and health services

To err is human: Building a safer health system

Victorian Government. Clinical risk management: Improving patient safety in Victoria's Public Hospitals

Victorian Government: Clinical Risk Newsletter

Victorian Quality Council Publications

WA Office of Safety and Quality in Healthcare (OSQH)
WA Office of Safety and Quality in Health Care (OSQH). Policies and Publications
WA Centre for Clinical Interventions
Western Australia clinical governance guidelines

UK

Bandolier: Evidence based thinking about health care, UK
Clinical Governance; Educational resources /NHS Scotland
Clinical governance, audit and guidelines. University of Leicester, UK
Centre for Reviews and Dissemination. York: University of York (Databases also part of Cochrane Library), UK
Doing Less Harm: Improving the safety and quality of care through reporting, analysing and learning from adverse incidents involving NHS patients -Key requirements for health care providers, UK
INTUTE: Web resources for health and research, UK
Netting the Evidence : evidence based virtual library, UK
Royal College of Nursing - Clinical governance resource guide, UK

UK National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE)

USA

International Society for Quality in Health Care Inc, USA
Institute for Health care Improvement, USA
Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organisations, USA

MedLinePlus: Patient Safety, USA

WHO (World health Organisation)

WHO launches 9 Patient Safety Solutions
WHO World Alliance for Patient Safety