In association with the Clinical Audit Support Centre, this Clinical Audit Leadership Summit 2022 focuses on good practice and leadership in Clinical Audit and Quality Improvement. The theme for the day is Clinical Audit for Improvement with emphasis on the development of effective local clinical audit leading to audit recommendations that change practice and improve patient care/safety.
The National Perspective on Clinical Audit
Sam McIntyre
Associate Director of Quality and Policy
Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM)
Using National Audit to improve Care Locally
Professor Cameron Swift
Emeritus Professor, King’s College London
Consultant Physician & Specialist Committee Member, Falls Prevention Quality Standard
NICE
• using national audit to improve care locally – learning from the National Hip Fracture Database
• using audit data to monitor care and prompt change
• investigating and understanding why national standards are not being met
• teamwork and implementation
• evaluating the impact of service change on patient care
Professor Cameron Swift discusses using National Audit to improve care locally- learning from the National Hip Fracture Database
During this presentation, we hear about positive evidence in preventing falls at later stage in life. Commonly detectable signals of risks are:
1. ageing processes
2. suboptimal physical fitness
3. stable specific impairment
4. unstable systemic illness
5. environmental risk factors in the home and the hospital setting
Professor Swift also discusses specifically inpatient falls, as inpatients are the highest risk category for falls.
The presentation evaluates the impact of service change on patient care, bringing examples of positive service change due to implementation of national audit data and local data collection, showing progressive reduction in hip fracture and pressure sore problem- "audit has delivered sound evidence for hip fracture"
Using National Audit to improve Care Locally • using national audit to improve care locally – learning from the National Hip Fracture Database • using audit data to monitor care and prompt change • investig
Stephen Ashmore & Tracy Ruthven
Co-Directors
CASC
• the Ockenden and Kirkup reports - what do they tell us about clinical audit?
• PSIRF: the great opportunity for clinical audit teams
• recent surveys: what data tells us about the state of clinical audit in 2022