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Delivering National Clinical Audit

Delivering National Clinical Audit. To share the perspective of managing clinical audit at national level Outline how national clinical audit supports local teams to improve services, patients to make choices and national organisations develop as assess the implementation of initiatives

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Delivering National Clinical Audit

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  1. Delivering National Clinical Audit Rhona Buckingham Manager, Clinical Effectiveness and Evaluation Unit, Clinical Standards Department

  2. To share the perspective of managing clinical • audit at national level • Outline how national clinical audit supports local • teams to improve services, patients to make • choices and national organisations develop as • assess the implementation of initiatives • Overarching principles for delivering national • audit • To encourage you to feedback

  3. National Clinical Audit by improving professional practice and the general quality of healthcare services provided, patient outcomes improve

  4. National clinical audit supports • local clinicians and teams to benchmark practice • local organisations to identify and make local • improvements for patients • patients to ask questions about the quality of • healthcare and support choice • CQCs regulatory work • national organisations to develop and monitor • the implementation of initiatives e.g. NSFs, • strategies, guidelines

  5. Delivering national clinical audit • Three over-arching principles to managing national • clinical audit • clinical leadership • multi-professional, collaborative working with • patient focus • project management

  6. Clinical leadership • All national clinical audits are directed by • experienced, senior, practicing clinicians – • specialists in the field • Not always a medic • Appointed through recruitment processes • Work plans and funding • Professionally led work • Leadership required to drive healthcare • improvement

  7. Multi-professional, collaborativeworking with patient focus • All national audits are overseen by a Steering Group • Representatives from key stakeholder groups: • including patient organisations • Collaborative working through life of audit • Governance • Methodology • Devising questions from guidance / standards • Report writing / dissemination • Improvement work / re-audit

  8. Project management • Good project management is critical to the • success of the audit • Apply project management techniques • (PRINCE 2) to deliver the audit according to • contract: on time, within resources and to the • satisfaction of the commissioner. • Communications / ability to engage is a vital skill • Appoint a Project Manager for each audit

  9. Get involved Testing, testing, testing, Contact the national audit team with constructive feedback / share your achievements

  10. Contact • Rhona.Buckingham@rcplondon.ac.uk • http://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/

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