Welcome to Healthcare Governance Review!

Healthcare Governance Review (HGR) is a free public blog site and e-mail newsletter for anyone concerned with governance issues in healthcare, including board members, senior managers, clinicians, assurance providers, policy makers and regulators. HGR is published by Healthcare Governance Limited and kindly supported by ECRI Institute (Europe). The site is edited by Stuart Emslie, Director of Healthcare Governance Limited.  Stuart is internationally known for his work in healthcare governance and healthcare risk management, including patient safety, having lectured and/or consulted in several countries, including Australia, China, Hong Kong, Ireland, Malaysia, Singapore and the USA, in addition to the UK. He is visiting fellow in healthcare governance and risk at Loughborough University Business School (where he developed and currently leads a ‘World-first’ postgraduate programme on healthcare governance – see the Education page), is visiting lecturer in risk management and clinical governance at Flinders University Medical School in South Australia, and is formerly Department of Health head of controls assurance for the NHS in England. Stuart holds a masters degree, with distinction, in corporate governance and ethics from the University of London and a bachelors degree, with honours, in mechanical engineering from the University of Strathclyde. He is a chartered mechanical engineer and a member of the Institute of Healthcare Management (IHM).