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Clinical Audit for Improvement 2025 is now in its 25th year and brings together clinicians, senior/middle managers and leading local and national clinical audit and improvement experts. Over the last two decades this event has become the ‘must-attend’ annual conference for clinical audit and QI professionals. This years conference will include a national update from Stella Vig, Medical Director for Secondary Care and Quality, NHS England, and will focus on practical skills and techniques needed by those involved in delivering clinical audit projects at a local and/or national level.
Through a series of keynote presentations, debates, practical case studies and extended interactive workshops attendees will better understand how to make clinical audit projects more effective. Delegates will also be able to see how IT advances can help improve clinical audit delivery. The conference this year will focus on the challenges of delivering effective clinical audit at a local level local. All healthcare organisations need to demonstrate that their local clinical audit functions are robust, effective and fit-for-purpose. Local audit projects and programmes should highlight good care, pin-point sub-standard and unsafe care, serving as an efficient mechanism to deliver impactful improvements. Local teams increasingly need to consider how clinical audit relates to patient safety initiatives and the new Patient Safety Incident Response Framework.
The programme includes a range of experienced and expert clinical audit and QI professionals who will share their personal experiences. The focus will not be on theory and how approaches could be taken, instead the emphasis will be on real world examples of how to implement high quality approaches to all elements of the clinical audit process.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND? This event is aimed at clinical audit managers and professionals, clinical audit leads, quality improvement professionals, clinicians undertaking clinical audit projects and senior managers.
“We are re-evaluating both quality and clinical audit at present in terms of the national direction…its rapidly changing…Measuring what matters to people using services, monitoring quality and safety consistently, sharing information in a timely and transparent way, using data to effectively inform improvement and decision making is a key step to delivering quality care.”
Stella Vig Medical Director for Secondary Care and Quality NHS England National Clinical Director for Elective Care NHS England & Consultant Vascular Surgeon, March 2024
“Clinical Audit is a way to generate discussion, to understand where outliers are and to deliver quality improvement that does two things – yes of course it improves outcomes for patients but also it improves the health and wellbeing of the individuals who are providing that service and starts to consider where investment should be, and it maybe disinvestment as well – there are challenging conversations”
Stella Vig Medical Director for Secondary Care and Quality NHS England National Clinical Director for Elective Care NHS England & Consultant Vascular Surgeon, March 2024
“Trusts rated good and outstanding have effective clinical audit processes and ensure that clinical audits are used to drive quality improvements.”
Care Quality Commission
“Clinical audit forms the backbone of clinical governance systems in most health service providers today.”
NHS Improvement
The conference will enable you to:·
Explore national developments in Clinical Audit
Understand the requirements of national clinical audit and how to meet expectations.
Examine approaches for taking results from NCAs and turning these into effective actions
Understand why an appreciation of statistics is key to success in clinical audit
Explore different approaches to sampling your patient populations
Understand what Excel skills and tricks clinical audit staff commonly use
Understand Information Governance requirements in clinical audit
Self-assess your clinical audit leaderships skills: how do you measure up?
Understand why leadership skills are vital to success in clinical audit
Debate why clinical audit action plans often fall short of what is expected
Understand why PSIRF may help us to create more robust and effective action plans
Consider why you should be publishing your clinical audit projects
Examine what the key skills are needed for ensuring your clinical audit work is published
Assess how clinical audit and QI best align in healthcare organisations
Understand how teams have successfully merged their clinical audit and QI functions
Explore how bespoke software can help teams better manage their clinical audit programme
Support CPD professional development and act as revalidation evidence. This course provides 5 Hrs training for CPD subject to peer group approval for revalidation purposes
