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Clinical governance in mental health services

3. a view from the ‘shop floor’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Jim Isherwood*
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Bootham Park, York YO30 7BY Isherwood
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In this paper, I explain the strategy for achieving clinical governance within the trust's mental health directorate, and describe the role that clinicians and managers would like the chief executive to play in helping us to achieve our targets.

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Copyright © 1999 Royal College of Psychiatrists

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