Led by someone who has run the services we support.
Clinical Governance Partners brings together experience operating care services, clinical leadership and a practical understanding of governance. We help providers connect day-to-day practice with clear management and board oversight.
Meet Shane Kelly.
Shane Kelly leads Clinical Governance Partners, working with providers, managers and boards across home support, disability residential services and nursing homes.
His background combines experience owning and operating care services with clinical leadership and healthcare management. That experience informs a practical approach: understanding how a service works, identifying what needs attention and helping teams put useful arrangements in place.
Every engagement starts with your service model, existing governance and the priorities facing your team.
Lead Consultant
Shane Kelly
Owner and Lead Consultant
Personal involvement in every engagement — from first conversation through to implementation and follow-through.
Experience grounded in care services.
Effective governance needs to work for the people delivering services as well as the people overseeing them.
Operating care services
Experience owning and operating nursing homes, home support and disability residential services brings an understanding of the decisions, responsibilities and pressures involved in day-to-day delivery.
Clinical leadership
A background in nursing, clinical leadership and healthcare management informs how we approach care quality, workforce responsibilities, risk and improvement.
Management and board oversight
Our work connects service-level information with management and board oversight, helping leaders understand priorities, assign responsibility and follow through on decisions.
Practical systems. Clear responsibilities.
Policies, audits and meetings are useful when they shape what happens in a service.
We focus on governance arrangements that teams understand and can use: clear responsibilities, relevant information, practical tools and a consistent approach to reviewing actions.
Understand the service
Start with the provider's service model, existing arrangements and current priorities.
Make the work usable
Develop tools and structures that fit the people responsible for applying them.
Connect findings to action
Make responsibilities, decisions and follow-through visible.
Start with your service and its priorities.
Support can focus on one immediate requirement or bring several services together into a wider governance engagement.
Understand your priorities
Discuss the service, what is driving the enquiry and where support would be most useful.
Agree the scope
Identify the work to be undertaken, the practical outputs and the responsibilities involved.
Work with your team
Develop and implement the agreed support, with clear actions and opportunities to review progress.
Clinical Governance Partners is a trading name of Optimus Healthcare Consultancy.
Let's talk about your service.
Whether you are reviewing governance, preparing for inspection or looking for clearer oversight, we would be glad to understand what your service needs.