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National Clinical Audits for inclusion in Quality Accounts

Department of Health national clinical audits for inclusion in Quality Accounts

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Introduction

Quality Accounts is a process governed and managed by the Department of Health (DH) - and independent of the work carried out and promoted by HQIP.  However, as many of the national clinical audits included in the Quality Accounts process form part of the NCAPOP programme (managed by HQIP), and because HQIP has a wider remit to promote healthcare quality improvement in general, we have collated the latest information below.

In response to feedback received, we have combined and simplified the quality accounts information we provide.  In addition to the DH-prepared National Clinical Audits for inclusion in Quality Accounts below is a newly developed document which tracks audits included in the 2010/11, 2011/12 and 2012/13 quality accounts for your convenience.  This is available in Google Docs format and a monthly downloadable Excel 'backup' for those who are unable to access Google Docs. This document also includes links direct to the project website and latest published reports.  If you have any comments about what you would find useful to further support your quality accounts work, please let us know.

 

Support for completing your quality account and preparing for next year's programme

Please click a link below to access the quality accounts lists for 2010-13: this tracks audits included in the 2010/11, 2011/12 and 2012/13 quality accounts.


*IMPORTANT, PLEASE READ:

UPDATE, APRIL 2012: Please note: since the DH announced the original 2012/13 QA list in February 2012, it has undergone some alterations. The DH has decided to keep its original list (published February 2012) on its website, and included for reference below, unchanged.

 

Further information on quality accounts

The national clinical audit part of your quality account should consist of two elements.  Element 1 relates to your activities collecting patient level data for those national clinical audits listed in the DH quality accounts list for the quality accounts year being reported.  Element 2 relates to acting on audit reports published during the course of the previous calendar year, and acted upon within the most recent financial year, including taking these to board meetings. As stated in the DH's quality account toolkit: "you should state the number of national clinical audit reports (published in the [previous] calendar year...) that were reviewed by your Board [in the most recent financial year] and, for each of those audits, the actions taken to improve the quality of services and the outcomes of care."

See the full toolkit here. 

The quality accounts lists linked above are provided in order to help Trusts fulfil their requirements, as specified in sections 2. 2.1, 2.2 and 2.3 of the Schedule to the National Health Service (Quality Accounts) Regulations 2010: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/279/contents/made

 

Criteria for inclusion

  1. Coverage: intention to achieve participation by all relevant providers in England
  2. Data collected on individual patients
  3. Provides comparisons of providers
  4. Recruiting patients during 2012-13.

 

Early support preparing for your 2013/14 quality accounts

HQIP are working to bring you information as soon as possible to help you prepare for your 2013/14.   We have listened to feedback that has been provided directly to the HQIP team and on NCAF.  If you have any comments about what you would find useful to further support your quality accounts work, please let us know, either by email or by posting on NCAF.

All NCAPOP audits which meet the above four criteria will be included in the 2013/14 QA list; you can begin planning for these in advance.

 

Previous quality accounts information

For information and reference, please see the list below of previous HQIP quality accounts pages:

 

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