National resources
Healthcare Quality Improvement
Partnership (HQIP) - Manages the National Clinical Audit
and Patients Outcomes Programme (NCAPOP) and has the responsibility
for reinvigorating local Clinical Audit in England and Wales.
It also provides online training resources on Clinical Audit.
National Institute for Health and Care
Excellence - NICE now provides audit criteria for its own
guidance, including definitions, relevant exceptions, and
suggestions for sources of data.
Clinical Audit Support Centre (CASC) - A
private company providing support and training for quality
improvement professionals in healthcare.
Clinical audit handbooks
Principles for Best Practice in
Clinical Audit (2002, NICE/CHI) was written primarily for staff
leading clinical audit and clinical governance projects and
programmes in the NHS; however it should also prove useful to other
people involved in audit projects. A 2nd edition was published in
January 2011 - ISBN: 1846192218
Best
Practice in Clinical Audit (2016, HQIP) sets out
updated criteria for best practice in local clinical
audit.
Local
Clinical Audit Handbook for Physicians (2011,
HQIP) includes case study examples from local clinical
audits.
A Practical
Handbook for Clinical Audit (2005, CGST) contains practical
advice about how to improve the quality of local Clinical
Audit.
Development of clinical audit
Bristol Inquiry - This informative paper
on the history of clinical audit was submitted as part of the BRI
inquiry.
