Date & Time
Thursday 13th June, 2024 9:30 AM - 3:30 PM
Venue
Online
Availability
Limited Spaces Available
Purchase
Overview
As outlined in the NHS Long Term Plan (2019) clinical audit stands as the cornerstone of progress and innovation of patient care across the NHS. However, without a coherent strategy aimed at nurturing effective audits, valuable opportunities for healthcare quality improvement will be lost.
This Effective Clinical Audit online programme is designed to align with the NHS Long Term Plan (2019), and provide you the tools and skills to unlock the full potential of clinical audit within your organisation. Discover the pivotal role of clinical audit in enhancing patient care and driving innovation, understand the barriers that impede effective audits and learn how to effectively overcome them, maximising your staff, time, and resources.
Gain practical insights into preparing for audits, from stakeholder engagement to data collection. Learn what motivates staff to embrace clinical audit feedback, empowering you to instil a culture of continuous improvement.
By the end of the training programme, you will take away knowledge, skills, insights which will promote more effective audits and ultimately elevate patient care standards within your organisation.
Learning Outcomes
Understand the fundamentals of clinical audit and align with the NHS' Long Term Plan (2019) for strategic impact
Gain effective strategies for overcoming key barriers to clinical audit
Harness best practices to prep for audits and captivate stakeholders' buy-in, ensuring maximum impact
Learn how to transform clinical audit findings into actionable insights that elevate patient care quality within your organisation
Develop clear actionable steps to improve your clinical audits, encompassing key findings and insights from the training programme
Lead Expert: Saydia Razak
Senior Human Factors Research Fellow, Oxford University
Former Senior Emergency Department Practitioner, Birmingham NHS Trust
Saydia Razak is a Human Factors Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. She is currently leading on the Human Factors Systems Redesign of Escalation of the RESPOND (Rescue for Emergency Patients Observed to undergo acute Deterioration) Programme. Saydia’s work is adopting Resilience Engineering principles to enhance the way surgically deteriorating patients are cared for post-operatively.
With her first hand insight into NHS environments and her Human Factors expertise Saydia is keen to enhance patient safety through teaching. She is a visiting Lecturer at the University of Leicester, a Honorary Fellow at Loughborough University, is a member of the Q Community (The Health Foundation), as well as a member of the (CIEHF) Covid-19 silver team expert panel, which provides clinical expertise on crises resulting from the pandemic.
Agenda
9:25 am
Logging on and Accessing the Platform
9:30 am
Trainers Welcome and Overview of Learning Objectives
10:00 am
The Fundamentals of Clinical Audit
Understand the key objectives and standards of clinical audit
Outline the importance of clinical audit in healthcare quality improvement
Explore the different types of clinical audits
Learn how clinical audit fits in to the NHS Long Term Plan (2019)
10:45 am
Overcoming Barriers to Clinical Audit
Identify the key barriers health professionals face in clinical audit
Gain strategies for optimising staff, time, and financial resources
Learn how to effectively communicate the purpose and benefits of clinical audit
Determine goals for overcoming barriers and improving clinical audit processes
11:30 am
Break
11:45 am
Planning and Preparing for Clinical Audit
Understand the SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-bound) criteria
Explore how to determine the relevant criteria for the audit and standards and benchmarks for comparison
Outline procedures for data collection, analysis, and reporting
Learn how to ensure consistency and standardisation in audit processes
Gain strategies for effectively engaging stakeholders and obtaining buy-in
12:30 pm
Lunch Break
1:45 pm
Maximising the Impact of Clinical Audit
Explore how to effectively review audit findings and identify areas of strength and opportunities for improvement
Learn how to successfully translate audit findings into actionable recommendations
Understand how to develop effective implementation plans for recommended changes
Explore how to monitor progress and evaluate the impact of changes
Gain an understanding of what motivates staff to take clinical audit feedback on board
2:15 pm
Workshop: Develop a Coherent Clinical Audit
Explore methods for identifying high-impact audit topics and areas for improvement, aligning closely with organisational goals and objectives
Embed prioritisation techniques within your audit framework, ensuring optimal allocation of resources and focus on critical areas
Develop strategies for fostering robust engagement among clinicians, managers, and frontline staff, leveraging diverse perspectives to drive meaningful change
Consider how to develop actionable recommendations based on audit results, emphasizing practical solutions that can be implemented to optimise patient outcomes.
3:15 pm
Final Question and Answer Session
3:15 pm Training Close
Pricing
Public Sector
£345 + VAT
Private Sector
£445 + VAT