Healthcare Governance for Accountability and Transparency

Abstract

Healthcare governance is a framework for improving quality of care and access by increasing accountability and promoting transparency for the excellent outcome of healthcare, shared learning and sharing. Healthcare governance plays a vital role in improving patients’ experiences, decreasing disparities in healthcare and shared learning from the experiences by promoting openness and culture of accountability. Service users’ involvement, in the process of health planning and delivery, is an opportunity to improve their experience. It is now time to introduce strategies and policies in Nepal to implement the concept of healthcare governance to improve the quality of care and access.

Keywords: clinical governance; healthcare governance; openness; accountability; service users.