901d Local audit support

Local Audit Support

Welcome to HQIP's pages which offer support to those working in local audit or who have responsibility for supplying data to national audits.

HQIP is here to help you deliver high quality audits for local quality improvement and to support your role in national duties and related data collection.

Clinical audit support for those working in local audit - whether clinicians, audit staff, commissioners or managers - is available via a wide variety of resources on this site. If you can't find the support you require, please do contact the Quality Improvement and Development team via email at qid@hqip.org.uk or telephone 020 7469 2500.

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.

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.

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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.

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Help with national clinical audits

Information about the national programme, details of data collection schedules, Quality Accounts,  national clinical audit support, tools, information and everything else, can be found here.

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The National Clinical Audit Forum (NCAF)

NCAF is the social networking forum for all with an interest in clinical audit and the wider fields of health and social care quality improvement. NCAF allows users to network with their peers, get advice, share  practice (including joining or forming networks of practice), add or join discussions. Click here to go to NCAF. 

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The National Clinical Audit Feedback Mechanism (NCAFM)

NCAFM is an ongoing and confidential system whereby those involved with NCAs can provide feedback which HQIP can then action. Users can request email updates as to progress on their feedback, and all results are listed on the main NCAFM page, which can be found here.

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