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79.—(1) The provider must have an effective system of clinical governance.
(2) The provider must nominate a person who will have responsibility for ensuring the effective operation of a system of clinical governance.
(3) The person nominated under sub-paragraph (2) must be a person who performs or manages services under the agreement.
[F1(3A) Where a health care professional employed by the Health Board performs clinical services from the provider’s practice premises—
(a)the provider must provide the Health Board with information about its system of clinical governance which is sufficient to allow that health care professional to effectively co-operate with that system of clinical governance, and
(b)the Health Board must ensure that any such health care professional employed by the Health Board is aware of the provider’s system of clinical governance.
(3B) Where the Health Board provides clinical services from the provider’s practice premises, the Health Board must have regard to the provider’s system of clinical governance.]
(4) In this paragraph “system of clinical governance” means a framework through which the provider endeavours continuously to improve the quality of its services and safeguard high standards of care by creating an environment in which clinical excellence can flourish.
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