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Dorset Heart Clinic Governance

Governance

Medical Advisory Committee

Dorset Heart Clinic has a Medical Advisory Committee (MAC) to ensure we achieve and maintain medical excellence across all our services. All medical practitioners that operate with us must complete a strict application process to apply for practising privileges and be part of our MAC.

 

These practising privileges must be renewed annually in keeping with guidelines set out by the Medical Practitioners Assurance Framework.

 

The MAC offers guidance and advice on all areas of clinical practice and meets at quarterly intervals through the course of the year. The MAC has a robust clinical governance strategy with appointed leads for clinical governance and clinical audit. The MAC also reports into the University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust (UHD) Clinical Governance committees. This ensures robust controls are always in place for the quality and effectiveness of care we deliver.

Our Clinical Director

Our clinical director is Dr Jehangir Din who also holds the position of clinical director of the cardiology department at UHD. This clinical oversight with joined audit, governance and reporting structures ensures that national minimal clinical standards are always being met and patient safety is prioritised and maintained across all our services. All consultant cardiologists based at Royal Bournemouth & Poole hospitals have practising privileges with Dorset Heart Clinic. We also have visiting consultant cardiologists from Salisbury and Dorchester who must also adhere to the same guidelines as our UHD based doctors.

Dr Jehangir Din
Dorset Heart Clinic Doctor with Stethoscope

Quality of Healthcare

We are extremely proud of the quality of healthcare we provide and our outcome data. As part of our ongoing commitment to quality standards in healthcare, we contribute to various databases including: The Private Healthcare Information Network (PHIN), National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death (NCEPOD) and National Institute for Cardiovascular Outcomes Research (NICOR).

We also support external audits and quality benchmarking from the following societies: British Cardiovascular Intervention Society (BCIS), Heart Rhythm Society (HRS), British Society of Echocardiography (BSE) and British Cardiovascular Society (BCS).

 

We are committed to delivering excellence in patient care, and benchmark ourselves against the quality framework used by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) in their key lines of enquiry. The CQC assesses organisations across five areas to judge whether they are: Safe, Effective, Caring, Responsive, and Well-Led.

Executive Management Board

Dorset Heart Clinic is the trading name for Dorset Heart Clinic LLP. The LLP is an award-winning partnership between University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust (UHD) and Regent’s Park Healthcare (RPH).

 

The partnership is led by an Executive Management Board (EMB) comprising senior executive directors from each organisation. UHD is represented by Mr Pete Papworth, Chief Financial Officer of UHD and Dr Anil Ohri, Chief Executive of RPH.

 

The EMB meets quarterly and provides governance, strategic, financial and operational steer to the partnership. The Dorset Heart Clinic LLP partnership was incorporated on 21 November 2016.

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