New Principles of Best Practice in Clinical Audit

This book is essential reading for all those who undertake clinical audit or are training to do so, including health practitioners, managers and commissioners in the NHS. It will also be useful to patients who contribute to audit governance.

Robin Burgess is chief executive of the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP), the organization responsible for supporting clinical audit in Great Britain.

Introduction: Foundations, tradition and new directions: the future of clinical audit in a new decade. Stage 1 - Preparation, planning and organisation of clinical audit. Stage 2 - Measuring Performance. Stage 3 - Implementing Change. Stage 4 - Sustaining Improvement Appendices Ethics and Clinical Audit. Clinical Audit, Impact and Quality Improvement - a discursive review. Change Management. Criteria and Indicators for best practice in clinical audit. Clinical Audit: a guide for NHS boards & partners. Patient and Public Engagement (PPE) in Clinical Audit. Further Sources of Help and Information. Abbreviations.