Mentoring and Clinical Governance

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Mentoring and Clinical Governance

• Geraldine Bynoe
• Associate Postgraduate Dean
• Yorkshire

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Why are we here?

• To celebrate mentor training
• 170 doctors and dentists trained in Northern and
  Yorkshire in the past 4 years

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Why are we here?

• To examine the ways mentoring can help
• the individual
• the organisation
• in the striving for excellence required for
  Clinical Governance

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Why are we here?

• To highlight the benefits of initiatives which
  are perceived by some as threats

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Why are we here?

• To enhance the oral tradition of medicine

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Clinical Governance

• .a framework through which NHS organisations are
  accountable for continuously improving the
  quality of their services and safeguarding high
  standards of care by creating an environment in
  which excellence in clinical care will flourish...

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What is our environment?

• Our physical, social psychological place
• Our personal , professional work situation
• which critically affects what we do

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Changing Environment

• Continuous change with excessive challenge can
  lead to overload and under-performance
• patient expectation
• education
• GMC
• families
• Royal Colleges etc.

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Mentoring

• Mentoring helps individuals face the challenges
  without the adverse effect of threat
• It is a mechanism of support for the individual

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Mentoring

• Can lead to the environment of openness and trust
  needed for Clinical Governance to succeed
• Can improve
• professional practice
• continuing personal and professional development

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Support and challenge
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Improving Professional Practice

• Evidence for improvement
• Poor
• Didactic
• Better
• Reading
• Best
• Conversations with others

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Improving Professional Practice

• The ORAL tradition of medicine
• LISTENING, SPEAKING AND REFLECTING