Clinical Audit Services
Education 
All of our courses and workshops can be provided regionally or locally for individual organizations. Some of our courses are offered throughout the year at national level in the UK or Republic of Ireland. For details of our national course dates, please see the calendar.
Getting Clinical Audit Right to Benefit Patients — a half–day or 1–day workshop on clinical audit for clinical staff
Using Clinical Audit to Improve Patient Care — a 5–day course for newly-appointed staff specializing in clinical audit
Advancing Clinical Audit — a 3–day course for experienced staff specializing in clinical audit
Leading a Clinical Audit Programme — a 3–day course for clinicians responsible for leading clinical audit
How to Teach Clinical Audit — a 2–day course for staff who need to teach clinical audit in their organizations
Clinical Audit Teaching Package — a comprehensive self-contained teaching package for staff who need to teach clinical audit to clinical staff. The link takes you to our publications, where there is more information about the teaching package and how to order a copy for your organization.
Managing a Clinical Audit Programme — a 1–day workshop for staff who have to manage the delivering of an organization’s clinical audit programme
Ethics and Clinical Audit — a 1–day workshop for clinical staff and clinical governance staff on how to recognize and manage ethics issues related to clinical audit
Consultancy
Design of large-scale or sensitive clinical audits
Training of data collectors for large-scale clinical audits
Analysis of clinical audit data
Presentation of clinical audit findings
Analysis of problems, action planning and measurement of the impact of the actions
Clinical audit strategies and policies
Coaching clinical audit committees and staff teams
Deriving clinical audit designs from evidence-based practice
Publications
Transforming Clinical Audit Data into Quality Improvements — an online learning package for clinical audit staff
Getting Clinical Audit Right to Benefit Patients — a 175–page guide for clinicians and clinical audit staff
Come condurre un Audit Clinico a beneficio dei pazienti — Edizione italiana — Da oggi è disponibile l'edizione italiana di Getting Clinical Audit Right to Benefit Patients di Nancy Dixon, a cura di Professor Ulrich Wienand. Una guida pratica per i Professionisti della Sanità su come effettuare audit clinici che siano di beneficio alla salute del paziente.
Clinical Audit Teaching Package — a comprehensive teaching package for staff who need to provide local training on clinical audit
Clinical Audit Manual — a 525–page comprehensive manual on all aspects of clinical audit
Guide to Ethical Practice for Clinical Audit — a booklet on ethics issues in clinical audit
Writing for publication 1–day workshop for clinical and other staff
Advice on conference and journal submissions related to quality improvement
Resources
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Clinical Audit Resources
Standards for a national clinical audit — Click here for a copy of Standards for a National Clinical Audit.
Clinical audit strategy sample document — Click here for a pdf copy of a sample clinical audit strategy document for a healthcare organization.
Knowledge and skills related to clinical audit — Click here for a pdf copy of a list of knowledge and skills related to clinical audit.
Clinical audit glossary — Click here for a pdf copy of a glossary of terms related to clinical audit.
Clinical audit's purpose, an opinion — Click here for a link to the Faculty Dental Journal's content platform, IngentaConnect to get a copy of the article, What is clinical audit's purpose: quality assurance or quality improvement? The article by Nancy Dixon explains why some evidence suggests that clinical audit is not effective in producing improvements in the quality of patient care and describes an improvement-driven approach to clinical audit.
Clinical auditing as a quality improvement process — Click here for a link to Kwaliteit in Zorg, the Dutch Journal on Quality in Health to get a copy of the article, Clinical auditing as a quality improvement process — a paradigm shift from audit and feedback. The article by Nancy Dixon gives an insight into the shift in understanding of clinical audit from quality assessment to quality improvement. It provides case studies that illustrate action interventions to achieve improvements in care that benefit patients.
Clinical Audit Forms
Clinical audit forms (pdf)— Click here for standard forms to structure a clinical audit proposal, data collection and report of findings for a clinical audit.
How to use clinical audit forms (pdf) — Click here for guidance on how to use standard forms to structure a clinical audit proposal, data collection and report of findings for a clinical audit.
Example of completed clinical audit forms (pdf) — Click here for a completed example of using standard forms to structure a clinical audit proposal, data collection and report of findings for a clinical audit.