Risk Registers and Governance in Medicine

Risk registers and governance frameworks sit behind every safety conversation in your trust, yet most doctors have never been shown how to engage with them, let alone use them well.

This session demystifies the language of risk and governance, giving you the confidence to engage with these frameworks and use them to improve safety.

• Understand the purpose and structure of a risk register and how it is used in your organisation.
• Demystify the language of clinical governance so you can engage with it confidently, not just comply with it.
• Recognise how good governance improves patient safety, rather than just meeting a requirement.
• Identify where risks in your own department should be escalated, and how to do it effectively.
• Apply governance thinking to a situation from your own clinical practice.