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What is clinical audit?
The NHS Clinical Governance Support Team define clinical audit in their Practical Clinical Audit Handbook as:
‘a quality improvement process that seeks to improve patient care and outcomes through systematic review of care against explicit criteria and the implementation of change. Put more simply: clinical audit is all about measuring the quality of care and services against agreed standards and making improvements where necessary.'
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