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It has often proven valuable to have the proposed audit task plan reviewed by an experienced auditor who is outside the audit team. Such reviews may raise issues that were not considered by the originator of the plan and that suggest the need to modify the plan in material ways. In an “audit office” with a hierarchical structure, such a review is typically required by office policy and is usually carried out in two stages by supervisory levels above that of audit team leader. In a more decentralised SAI, such as some “courts. | NICOR NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR CARDIOVASCULAR OUTCOMES RESEARCH NATIONAL _ heart Audit APRIL 2010 - MARCH 2011 The British Society for Heart Failure BSH is a national organisation of healthcare professionals dedicated to improving heart failure outcomes in the UK. The BSH was responsible for providing clinical leadership and strategic direction to the National Heart Failure Audit annual report 2010 11. NICOR THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR CARDIOVASCULAR OUTCOMES RESEARCH NICOR provides information to improve heart disease patients quality of care and outcomes. We are a unique partnership of clinicians from local hospitals the national specialist societies and the Department of Health IT experts analysts academics and managers. X II I p Healthcare Quality X rix lr Improvement Partnership The Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership HQIP promotes quality in healthcare. HQIP holds commissioning and funding responsibility for the National Heart Failure Audit and other national clinical audits. Acknowledgments The National Heart Failure Audit is managed by National Institute for Cardiovascular Outcomes Research NICOR at University College London and has been developed in partnership with the British Society for Heart Failure BSH . It has been commissioned by the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership HQIP . We would like to acknowledge the important contribution of NHS Improvement and by all NHS Trusts Heath Boards and the individual clinicians nurses and audit teams who participate in the audit. National Institute for Cardiovascular Outcomes Research NICOR The Institute of Cardiovascular Science University College London 170 Tottenham Court Road London W1T 7HA Copyright 2012 UCL. All rights reserved. NATIONAL HEART FAILURE REPORT APRIL 2010-MARCH 2011 This fourth annual report for the National Heart Failure Audit presents key findings and recommendations from the audit which was launched in July 2007. The data included in this report were submitted between .