Home support providers
Strengthen governance across dispersed teams, with practical support for care quality, workforce oversight, reporting and evolving requirements.
Clinical Governance Partners
Practical clinical governance for care providers.
We help home support, disability residential and nursing home providers strengthen governance, prepare for inspection and give boards a clearer view of quality, risk and performance.
Governance that works in practice
Clear systems. Confident oversight.
Good governance connects what happens in a service with what managers and boards need to know.
Clinical Governance Partners helps providers put practical structures, clear responsibilities and useful reporting in place—so policies, audits and meetings lead to action.
- Practical tools your team can use.
- Clear ownership and accountability.
- Evidence that supports decisions.
Who we work with
Support shaped around your service.
Different care settings bring different governance challenges. We tailor our support to your service model, your priorities and the people you support.
Disability residential services
Keep governance in step with growth, strengthen oversight across centres and prepare new services for registration and first inspection.
Nursing homes
Support inspection preparation, committee oversight, audits and improvement planning across individual homes and groups.
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How we help
Focused support. Practical outcomes.
Address a specific priority or bring several services together into a wider governance engagement.
Review & Readiness
Understand your current position, prepare for inspection and turn findings into clear improvement priorities.
Governance & Oversight
Put practical structures, clear responsibilities and useful reporting at the centre of your service.
Specialist Support
Get focused support for new services, tender preparation and clearer board reporting.
Not sure where to start?
Tell us about your service and we'll suggest the most useful place to begin.
Our approach
From understanding your service to supporting improvement.
We start with your service model, current arrangements and priorities. From there, we agree the support that will be most useful and develop tools your team can put into practice.
Understand
Review the starting position and agree priorities.
Build
Develop structures, tools and clear responsibilities.
Support
Help teams implement, review and follow through.
One framework. Eight connected pillars.
The CGP framework connects documents, audits, meetings and reporting around the areas that matter to effective governance.
- Clinical Effectiveness
- Workforce Governance
- Safeguarding
- Risk & Incident Management
- Information Governance
- Leadership & Accountability
- Quality Assurance & Audit
- Service User Partnership
Board Pack Service
Give your board a clearer view.
When audits, incidents, risks and actions sit in separate places, the important picture can be difficult to see.
Our Board Pack Service brings governance information into a clear, consistent reporting flow for management and boards.
- Quality, risk and performance in one reporting structure.
- Clear decisions, actions and ownership.
- A stronger connection between service delivery and board oversight.
Who you'll work with
Practical experience. Personal involvement.
Clinical Governance Partners is led by Shane Kelly, Owner and Lead Consultant.
His experience spans operating nursing homes, home support and disability residential services, alongside clinical leadership and healthcare management.
Every engagement starts with understanding your service and the support your team needs.
Clinical Governance Partners is a trading name of Optimus Healthcare Consultancy.
Lead Consultant
Shane Kelly
Owner and Lead Consultant
Personal involvement in every engagement—from first conversation through to implementation and follow-through.
Get in touch
Let's talk about your service.
Whether you are preparing for inspection, reviewing governance, opening a new service or improving board reporting, start with a conversation.
Direct contact
- Phone
- 086 154 6079
- Address
- Killin Park House, Killin, Dundalk, Co. Louth, A91 H660