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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
• supporting local audit staff and creating seamless links between national and local audit
• 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.

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.

With separate funding from the Health Foundation, we offer support and assistance to identified providers or PCTs who might benefit from an additional level of help to implement audit.

Nominations, which can come directly from a provider Trust supported by their SHA, who are key partners for us in helping address quality. These should be sent to Jane Moore via lqit@hqip.org.uk.

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

See also: Local clinical audit support team | What is local clinical audit? | Audit tools | News