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Welcome to the second QI blog that we are releasing during the coronavirus lockdown. I’m sure like us, many of you are starting to get the feeling that this ...

Apologies again for the slight delay in publishing this latest blog. When we set up this QI blog last Summer the plan was to blog weekly. Lately we have slip...

Apologies for the slight delay in writing this latest blog. As we have said the plan is to write one every week but we must admit we have been rather busy of...

This is going to be perhaps our shortest blog since we commenced this blogsite in Summer 2019. It doesn’t need to be a long sprawling effort. It is a simple ...

Over the last 2 weeks we have used our QI blog to focus attention on national clinical audit… looking at both the best qualities of NCAs and suggestions on h...

Last week’s blog focused on feedback we received via our annual survey at the end of 2019. Do take a look if you get a moment. The blog examined the best att...

Since setting up the Clinical Audit Support Centre (CASC) in 2006, the one constant recurring theme we have heard in local, regional and national meetings ha...

Welcome to our first blog of 2020! Happy New Year to you! May the next 12 months bring everything that you desire… and most importantly, keep you happy and i...

Christmas is almost here... just one week to go! For our last QI blog of 2019 we are publishing 3 adapted Christmas carols. They are just for fun really, but...

Last Friday I was lucky enough to attend Healthcare Conference UK’s London event entitled ‘Implementing the NHS patient safety strategy at a local level’. Al...

Another Clinical Audit Awareness Week is in the can… edition 7 done! Did it exceed our expectations, was it OK or were we left disappointed? Well from lookin...

‘Momentum’ is described as ‘the impetus and driving force gained by the development of a process or course of events’. As we come to the end of Clinical Audi...

By Maggie Herbert and Cheryl Guest, NHS England and NHS Improvement Digital Education team Quality improvement (QI) is playing a vital role in enhancing heal...

NICE (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, publish a lot of products. One of the best (in my opinion) is Quality Standards (QS). Quality Standa...

I've just watched a video on YouTube called Audits v QI and I felt a bit sick. The presenter, see here, said he would get rid of clinical audit, a professio...

The following guest blog has been written by Rebecca Jones, Clinical Governance Manager, Langford Vets. CASC are indebted to her for taking the time to write...

Over the last couple of weeks, the Clinical Audit Support Centre team have been updating our Root Cause Analysis training materials. Inevitably, as part of t...

With the recent publication of the new Patient Safety Strategy, the team at CASC have been updating our accredited Root Cause Analysis training and as part o...

A number of weeks ago the Clinical Audit Support Centre were contacted by an expert local clinical audit and QI professional to tell us about a recent experi...

This is our first guest blog. The author is a clinical audit and quality improvement expert working for an Acute Trust. The author wishes to remain anonymous...