The procedure for carrying out a Clinical Audit project at UH
Bristol and Weston is detailed below:
- Idea - discuss your
project idea with an appropriate member of the Clinical Audit
Team.
- Proposal - register the
audit via the AMaT audit management system (contact your Audit
Facilitator to find out how to access).
- Approval - the proposal
will be approved by the Divisional / specialty Clinical Audit
Convenor and Facilitator.
- Support - discuss
with your Clinical Audit Facilitator what further support they can
give you.
- Data - collect and
analyse your data.
- Present - discuss
results with colleagues and make recommendations; presentation and poster
templates are available.
- Report - a written
report provides the permanent record of the audit; you can generate
one in AMaT.
- Action - a
final action plan details what is to be done to create
improvement, by whom and by when.
We know that bureaucracy can be time-consuming, but this
procedure is there to protect you, your colleagues, the Trust, and
ultimately patients. We want to support you to do audit that brings
about positive changes to patient care.
Points to note:
If your project involves review of patient case notes, these
will not be pulled unless the project has been approved and
registered. Large note-pulls (eg more than 100 notes) may be
queried by the audit team as part of the approval process.
If your project involves a patient or staff survey, this will
require separate approval by the Trust's Questionnaire,
Interview and Survey (QIS) Group - a proposal form and
template covering letter can be found on their webpage.
