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

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

‘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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

It might not be said very often, but clinical audit is about the pursuit of excellence. In a nutshell, we use regular measurements to...

With just under 6 weeks until the start of Clinical Audit Awareness Week, we are once again using the blog to focus on what now seems to...

National Clinical Audit is often in the spotlight and rightly so given the considerable sums of public money spent on these projects and...

We’ve posted a few meaty blogs lately, so this week it is going to be short and sweet! Actually, the eleventh blog we are posting on this...

Spuddling… great word, isn’t it? But what does it actually mean? According to the Your Dictionary online, the verb ‘spuddle’ means ‘to...

You will remember that our last blog focused on how the fishbone diagram that is often employed in an attempt to identify possible...

The fishbone aka ‘cause and effect diagram’ aka ‘the Ishikawa diagram’. Any of us working in audit, quality and patient safety will be...

We’ve been hearing for a good while now that it is all about quality improvement! Indeed, a few local colleagues have reported to us that...

Ask not what #CAAW19 can do for you…ask what you can do for #CAAW19! Of course, we’ve all heard the amazing speech that JFK gave at his...