Clinical Audit Awareness Week continues this week

June 14, 2022

Today there is a national focus on influencing change through clinical audit.

Denise Owen has been nominated to the national ‘Influencing Change Audit Hero’ competition, which is a great acknowledgement of all the hard work done by Denise and the whole team. Denise led a project that aimed to make the CQC domains more accessible and establish a review practice that could be embedded into practice. By creating an electronic tool and using clinical audit methodologies, Denise has influenced a change in culture around our approach to reviewing practice in line with CQC standards, which ultimately provides us with more opportunities to know where we can make improvements to patient care.

Please visit our clinical effectiveness Connect page to read more about the great work done by our ‘Audit Hero’ colleagues.

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.