Clinical Audit Awareness Week

Clinical Audit Awareness Week 2024, coordinated by HQIP, runs from the 24th-28th June. It is a national campaign to promote and celebrate the benefits and impact of clinical audit and quality improvement work in healthcare.

Clinical audits are essential to ensure we can continually evolve, develop and maintain high quality patient care. Audits help to identify when something is working, but also identify any areas that need improving and the changes needed to make those improvements.

Clinical audits are not static or a standalone piece of work. They are a quality improvement cycle that can be repeated at intervals to track performance. A cycle typically includes preparation and planning an audit, measuring performance, implementing change, and sustaining improvements made, including re-auditing if needed.

There are many benefits to clinical audit. Clinical audit:

• promotes and enables expected practice
• provides opportunities for education and training
• builds relationships between clinicians, clinical teams, managers and patients
• leads to improvements in service delivery and patient outcomes.

Here is just a handful of the clinical audits our staff have completed and the difference they have made to our services.

We want to thank the teams across the hospice for their contribution to clinical audits and commitment to continuously improving patient care. They really are clinical audit heroes!