How to Plan a Clinical Audit: Bitesize Learning

Audit is an important mechanism for regularly reviewing and evaluating the processes you have within your workplace.  It enables us to recognise where there are gaps in the way we do things, and helps us to plan how to fill those gaps with new processes for getting things right!

In healthcare for example, audit is the way we monitor the quality of care delivered to those receiving the care we provide. Audit also shows us where things are not working as well as we would like them to.

Audit is an essential part of the Quality Assurance monitoring programme.  You may have a team of people working with you to complete audits, or you may be asked to undertake an audit yourself.  Working through this module will provide you with the basic knowledge and skill you need to be able undertake a simple audit, identify the results and put actions into place to close the gaps!

Please take your time to complete this short course.  We suggest that it will take approximately 15 – 20 minutes to complete.

Once you have passed the accompanying assessment at the final stage you will receive a certificate that can be kept as part of your developing portfolio.