This week is Clinical Audit Awareness Week
June 14, 2022
Today we are hoping to raise awareness of the NICE (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence) quality improvement project the clinical effectiveness team is currently running. NICE provide health and care settings with guidance on best practice, so can be really effective standards for clinical audit. However, we appreciate that there may be gaps in the NICE process at SWB, so the team would love to hear from you! If you click here the link will take you to an anonymous feedback form where you can help shape changes to the current NICE process.
Linking in with the national theme for day two of Clinical Audit Awareness Week (CAAW) which is advocating for patients in clinical audit, we are hoping that implementing a more robust NICE process within SWB, we will be able to identify more opportunities for patient engagement in the clinical effectiveness portfolio.
Join our drop in sessions: Tuesday – Thursday, 10am – 2pm at the following locations:
- Hallam restaurant foyer, Sandwell
- Postgraduate Centre library, City
Note: The team will also be at Rowley on Wednesday 15 June
Can’t get make any of the sessions? A series of free national ‘Learn at Lunch’ webinars are being run by National Quality Improvement including Clinical Audit Network (NQICAN) 12.30pm – 2pm everyday during CAAW22. These will cover the role of clinical audit in the following:
- Patient safety
- Patient advocates
- Influencing change
- Health inequalities
- Future-proofing healthcare
During these webinars, the winners of the national ‘audit heroes’ for each category will be announced where SWB have five colleagues who have been nominated – click here to find out more.
For more information about the week and get in touch with the team, please email swbh.auditteam-clineffec@nhs.net.