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Public Health Service Governance: Principles and Framework

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This chapter sets out a proposed public health service’s governance framework and describes the systems in place to ensure that the health service Board, Executive and all staff of the organisation are accountable for the clinical, corporate, financial and operational aspects of the organisation.

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    https://vpsc.vic.gov.au/governance/governance-structure-and-roles/governance-structure/.

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    https://www.safetyandquality.gov.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/National-Model-Clinical-Governance-Framework.pdf.

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    https://www.iso.org/standard/43170.html.

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  1. Monash Centre for Health Research and Implementation, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia

    Erwin Loh & Katherine Lorenz

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  1. Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, Department of Emergency Medicine, Sheffield, UK

    Derek Burke

  2. Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, Department of Paediatric Surgery, Sheffield, UK

    Prasad Godbole

  3. Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield, UK

    Andrew Cash

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Loh, E., Lorenz, K. (2019). Public Health Service Governance: Principles and Framework. In: Burke, D., Godbole, P., Cash, A. (eds) Hospital Transformation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15448-6_10

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