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HQIP Guidance and resources
These resources have been arranged alphabetically by theme.
All of our guidance is reviewed periodically and some were revised during the latest review, in November 2011 - January 2012. The date of publication, or last review, is listed after each product, along with a note on the extent of any changes made:
- Reviewed: the guidance was checked for continued relevance and no changes were necessary
- Revised: minor changes: some of the wording was changed to reflect recent developments
- Revised: major changes: substantial parts of the text have been re-written to reflect recent developments
We therefore advise that if you have previously read a guidance document, re-reading is only necessary if major changes have been made.
DOCUMENT REVIEW UPDATE: As part of our new contract with NHS England we will be undertaking a comprehensive review of all our guidance documents over the summer. This supercedes the next review dates stated on the documents.
- Boards and clinical audit homepage >>
- Good Governance Guide (January 2012)
- Clinical audit: A simple guide for NHS Boards & partners (January 2010)
- Summary - Clinical audit: A simple guide for NHS Boards & partners (January 2010)
- NHS Boards guidance presentation for providers (November 2010)
- Criteria and indicators of best practice in clinical audit (Revised: minor changes, March 2012)
- Summary - Criteria and indicators of best practice in clinical audit (Revised: minor changes, March 2012)
- Download clinical audit criteria tool (Reviewed, March 2012)
- Guide to carrying out clinical audits on the implementation of care pathways (Revised: minor changes, Nov 2011)
- Guide to Ensuring Data Quality in Clinical Audit (Reviewed, November 2011)
- Guide to Facilitating Clinical Audit across Different Care Settings (Revised: minor changes, Nov 2011)
- How Foundation Year Doctors can get the most from their clinical audit project (March 2011)
- Guide for clinical audit leads (March 2011)
- Local Clinical Audit: Handbook for Physicians (August 2010)
- Guide to Involving Junior Doctors in Clinical Audit (Reviewed, November 2011)
- Ethics and clinical audit and quality improvement (Revised: minor changes, Nov 2011)
- Guide to working with industry on clinical audit (Revised: minor changes, Jan 2012)
- Patient and public guidance page >>
- Online learning - clinical audit training for patients (web) >>
- A guide to developing a patient panel for clinical audit (pdf) >>
- How to develop a patient-friendly clinical audit report (pdf) >>
- HQIP's 'PPE in Clinical Audit' guide (pdf) >>
- HQIP's 'PPE in Clinical Audit' summary (pdf) >>
- Presentation based on guidance standards (pdf) >>
- PPE and clinical audit tool (excel) >>
- Guide for patients in understanding clinical audit reports (pdf) >>
- Guide on how to present clinical audits for the public (1) (pdf) >>
- Clinical Audit: An Introduction for patients (pdf) >>
- Information governance for clinical audit patient information leaflet (pdf) >>
- Principles of Quality in National Clinical Audit (July 2012, pdf)
- ‘New Principles of Best Practice in Clinical Audit', edited by HQIP Chief Executive Robin Burgess - the updated version of what was known as the NICE guide to clinical audit. Not downloadable here, but commercially available in hard copy, published by Radcliffe. (February 2011)
- Clinical audit programme guidance (Revised: major changes, January 2012)
- Templates clinical audit policy and strategy (Revised: major changes, January 2012)
- Template clinical audit report (September 2009)
Quality improvement and financial constraints/UKQC work
Hosted by HQIP from 2009-2012, the UK Quality Collaboration (UKQC) was a multi-professional group of independent specialist healthcare organisations, working collectively to improve quality improvement, share best practice and drive up standards in service delivery. During this time it produced these two guidance documents on maintaining quality standards while adhering to financial constraints:
- UKQC/Good Governance Institute 'Quality & Cost' report and maturity matrix (2010, pdf)>
- 'Quality & Cost' discussion paper (2010, pdf) >>
In 29 June 2012 UKQC was absorbed into HQIP's newly created Advisory Group providing an opportunity to continue to offer advice, suggestions, feedback, challenge and stimulus to HQIP as part of a wider group of organisations. This move was welcomed unreservedly by UKQC for the real opportunities to bring together a wider group focused on quality that would have real value, not just for HQIP, but for quality in the UK as a whole.
- A guide for clinical audit, research and service review (Revised: minor changes, Nov 2011)
- An Introduction to Statistics for Clinical Audit (Revised: minor changes, Nov 2011)
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