Auditing Our Practice Do You

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• Auditing Our Practice Do You?

Gail Cotton MBA. OHND RGN. CMIOSH Head of
Occupational Health and Fitness Forge
Health Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service
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Audit WHY BOTHER?

• Official examination of accounts or account
  book Concise Oxford dictionary.
• 1989 Ken Clarke suggested systematic critical
  analysis of quality of medical care
• Quality had to be measured
• Contemporary definition for clinical audit is
• clinical quality assurance achieved by
  comparing ones practice with recognised standards
  identifying deficits in practice.
• Recognition of the causes of deficits
• Rectification strategies
• Perpetually repeated
• Improved standards.

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NMC Guidance

• by auditing records and acting on the results
  you can assess the standard of record keeping and
  communications..
• allows you to identify areas where improvements
  might be made
• (Relates to all areas of practice)

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When to audit?

• Following a complaint
• Problem with quality
• Meeting a standard
• Need to improve
• Requirement of Government/masters
• NICE

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Audit Cycle. Sustained assurance in particular
areas, whilst identifying needs and methods of
audit in new areas.
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Audit Cycle Outcome Action
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Workshop QUESTIONS

• Do you audit? Yes
  No
• What Publications are you aware of re audit?

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Questions for group work
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In Conclusion
My personal view , we should provide a service
where the audit process is implicit within our
practice
we may need to do different things rather than
doing things differently
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The audit planning team?
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The audit team and off to work they go. !