Clinical governance for hospices.
Incident learning, clinical competency and policy sign-off across inpatient, community and hospice at home teams, with the reports your clinical governance committee and trustees need.
One governance picture across every team.
Hospices run inpatient units, community teams and hospice at home services, often with volunteers and bank staff alongside employed clinicians. Assure brings incidents, competency, handovers and policies together, so clinical leads see the whole picture.
- Your language. Assure talks about patients throughout.
- Needs your attention shows red incidents, overdue actions, expiring competencies and policies to review.
- Trends are charted with NHS England's Making Data Count method.
The dashboard, set up for a hospice. Sample data from a fictional service.
Competency compliance and the matrix of staff against clinical tasks.
Competency you can evidence, task by task.
Assure records competency sign-off for clinical tasks, such as syringe driver management, with the assessor, their registration, the evidence type and the reassessment date. Expiring sign-offs are flagged before they lapse.
Staff log their CPD, managers verify it, and compliance can be reported for the whole organisation or one team.
What hospices use most
Every part of Assure works in a hospice. These are the areas that matter most to hospice clinical governance.
Incident learning
Severity grading, root cause, lessons learned and actions tracked to closure.
Duty of Candour
Notification, apology, written notification and sharing findings, with a candour log.
Clinical competency
Task-specific sign-off with expiry alerts and verified CPD.
Policies and procedures
Version control and read-and-sign tracking for every member of staff.
Handovers
Structured handovers for hospice at home and community teams, with read receipts.
Governance reports
Monthly governance, inspection readiness and incident trend reports for committees and trustees.
How Assure supports hospice governance
What Assure helps you show to CQC, commissioners and your board.
| What is asked | What Assure records |
|---|---|
| Regulation 12, safe care and treatment | Incidents reviewed, actions closed and trends monitored across teams. |
| Regulation 18, staffing | Competency sign-off for clinical tasks, reassessment dates and verified CPD. |
| Regulation 20, Duty of Candour | Each step of the duty recorded, with a candour log report. |
| Regulation 17, good governance | Monthly governance reports and a complete audit trail for committees and trustees. |
Common questions
Does Assure replace our electronic patient record?
No. Assure sits alongside your patient record system and handles clinical governance, such as incident review, competency and policy sign-off.
Can we add our own clinical tasks?
Yes. Task names can be extended with your own options in Settings, so you can record the clinical tasks your teams carry out.
Can reports go to our clinical governance committee?
Yes. Every report prints or saves as a PDF, and the underlying data downloads as a spreadsheet.
Features hospices use
Incident reporting
Report from a phone in minutes, grade severity, meet notification and Duty of Candour duties, and close every action.
Read moreDelegated tasks and competency
Record each delegated task, sign off competence per person and task, and get warned before sign-offs expire.
Read morePolicies and read-and-sign
Version-controlled policies, read-and-sign tracking and review reminders, all evidenced.
Read moreSee Assure set up for a hospice.
Book a demo and we will show you Assure with patients, clinical competency and the governance reports a hospice board needs.
Plans from £119 a month, with every feature and onboarding included. See pricing