Local Audit Support

• How HQIP supports local clinical audit
• Local clinical audit guidance
  
• Local clinical audit networks
• Clinical audit networks fund
• What is local clinical audit?
• Quality Improvement and Development Team 
• Quality Improvement and Development Team blog
• HQIP Annual Conference
• Clinical Audit Knowledge Exchange

HQIP supports local clinical audit by:

• promoting and enabling participation in clinical audit and quality improvement initiatives by healthcare professionals of all disciplines and specialties, as well as by patients and service users
• creating national and local partnerships between clinicians and patients/service users to optimise the impact of clinical audit
• acting to channel communication back and forth between local audit teams and national audits and to help get issues addressed
• administering systems of feedback from local audit staff to national audit providers
• fostering active dissemination and implementation of audit results within a broader quality agenda
• ensuring that evidence about participation in audit, and the results of audit, are used for secondary purposes. These include work-based learning and support of revalidation of healthcare professionals
• encouraging and enabling audit in areas of low activity
• developing clinical audit as a profession marked by training, standards and professional body.

Guidance:

Use the quick-links below to access HQIP's comprehensive and continually updated resources, providing guidance and support.

• Read about HQIP's four-point improvement plan for national and local audit>>
• Criteria of Best Practice in Clinical Audit >>
• HQIP Guidance >>
• Guidance from other organisations >>

We will provide support to enhance established clinical audit networks and develop new networks where they do not exist, create a library of resources, including tools and guidance to help local teams deliver local audit activity and develop a national training and education strategy for clinical audit.

The HQIP multi-site audit fund is also a useful contribution to funding audit below the national level. Click here for details.

Quality Improvement and Development Team blog:

Members of HQIP's Quality Improvement and Development Team write a regular blog, reporting on initiatives to support clinical audit at a local level. View the blog via this link.