tailieunhanh - Clinical audit: A simple guide for NHS Boards & partners

“There is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than the creation of a new system” Machievelli. The development of a new computer system represents an area of potentially significant risk to an organisation. New computer systems are developed to meet a variety of business needs, whether they be to meet new legal requirements, to maintain or enhance profitability, to improve efficiency or to reduce costs. The failure of a new system could have a major impact on an organisation’s future viability and well being. A review of an organisation’s financial statements will usually indicate that, with minor exceptions, the development of. | 5HQIP Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership Good Governance Institute Clinical audit A simple guide for NHS Boards partners Authors Dr. John Bullivant Director Good Governance Institute GGI Andrew Corbett-Nolan Chair Institute of Healthcare Management IHM Contents Executive summary 3 1. Clinical audit Ten simple rules for NHS Boards 5 2. Foreword 7 3. Clinical audit as part of the modern healthcare system 9 4. Definitions and types of clinical quality review 11 5. The importance and relationship of clinical audit to clinical governance NHS Boards and their partner organisations 15 6. The content and oversight of a clinical audit strategy 19 7. The clinical audit cycle spiral 23 8. Roles and responsibilities 27 9. References 30 10. Further reading references and access to glossary 31 The purpose of clinical audit is to improve patient care. The focus of this guide is to provide an explanation of the importance and relevance of clinical audit in improving patient care to NHS Boards and their partner organisations. It will also be useful to clinicians managers service users and partner agencies regarding the role of NHS Boards their members and committees in gaining assurance that clinical audit is relevant focused and complete by ensuring results are shared acted on reviewed and sustained. This resource will be of value to Primary Care Trusts. ISBN 978-1-907561-01-6 January 2010 This document has been produced by the Good Governance Institute GGI and the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership HQIP with thanks to those who commented on earlier drafts. Holland House 4 Bury Street London EC3A 5AW 020 7469 2500 Executive summary Whilst this guide is specifically about clinical audit much of what is described here is relevant to the way in which NHS Boards can monitor clinical quality as a whole within the context of clinical or integrated governance. Clinical audit has been endorsed by the Department of Health in .