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Junior Doctor ‘Clinical Audit of the Year’ competition announced
The Clinical Audit Support Centre have teamed up with Healthcare Events to run the first-ever ‘Junior Doctor Clinical Audit of the Year’ competition. The competition is open to all junior doctors and full details on how to submit your entries are available here. Successful entrants will be invited to display their clinical audit projects at the ‘Junior Doctor Led Clinical Audit’ conference (click here for more details) in Manchester on 18th November. Entries must be received by 27th September and the winner receives a bundle of prizes, including: publication of their audit project in Clinical Audit Today journal, the opportunity to present their audit at Clinical Audit and Improvement 2011 conference in London and a further free place at a forthcoming Healthcare Events conference. If you work in clinical audit, please circulate this information to junior doctors who have completed a clinical audit project.
Who is staying and who is quan-going?
The Department of Health published ‘Liberating the NHS: Report of the arms-length bodies review’ on 28th July 2010. The report sets of proposals for arms-length bodies (ALBs) in the health and social care sector and is likely to have implications for healthcare staff working in clinical audit and quality improvement. The report focuses on the new coalition government’s strategy to increase accountability and transparency and reduce the number/cost of quangos. The report cuts the number of ALBs from 18 to between 8-10 and will deliver savings of over £180 million by 2015. Abolished quangos include: National Patient Safety Agency, Health Protection Agency and NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement. To access the report in full, click here.
Training section of website updated
The Clinical Audit Support Centre have recently updated the training section of our website. The updated section now provides visitors with the opportunity of downloading PDF flyers giving full details of the courses that we offer, including Advanced Clinical Audit, Clinical Audit Skills Distance Learning Course, Significant Event Audit Masterclass and The Art of Being Brilliant. The training section also gives dates of when courses are next taking place in Leicester and there is also the chance to read more on how we can deliver ‘tailor-made’ courses.
Issue 6 of Clinical Audit Today now available
The six issue of Clinical Audit Today is now available online – click here to access the journal. The July 2010 issue includes a number of thought-provoking articles, including Stephen Ashmore’s editorial entitled ’Three conversations in 2010’. The journal also includes national updates, plus the latest hilarious masterpiece by Grumpy Old Auditor aka John Grant Casey looking at why clinical audit professionals often don’t share their work and resources. Nicola Porter has provided details of how the work of GAIN in Northern Ireland and there is a brief summary of CASC’s Clinical Audit Job Vacancies Report. The issue also includes an interview with Ian Coyle – who can arguably lay claim to being the UK’s most hardworking clinical audit professional.
CASC produce short film on how to carryout a successful audit
The Clinical Audit Support Centre launched Clinical Audit TV in 2009 and have just added a third film to the library of resources. The latest film is short and simple and explains how to carry out a successful local clinical audit project. The film provides a step-by-step guide to those healthcare professionals who need to undertake their own clinical audit projects and includes tips and practical guidance. The film lasts just under ten minutes and is designed to give an overview of the audit process to those who have little experience of undertaking clinical audit projects. We intend to record and publish several more short films over the second-half of 2010 and these will be made available online.
Issue 31 of audit jobs bulletin now available
The Clinical Audit Support Centre recently launched their Clinical Audit Jobs Bulletin. Every two weeks we search through all of the clinical audit-related jobs advertised on the NHS jobs website and produce a relevant document that will enable audit professionals to see what jobs are currently available. We list the main descriptors for each role, e.g. employing organisation, job title, salary, location and closing date. We have also noted the job reference number that will allow you to find further details of jobs that you want more information on without spending lots of time searching the entire NHS jobsite database. To download the Jobs Bulletin, click here.
Request your CASC information pack
CASC have developed a series of promotional materials that provides you with more details of the work that we support. The wallet of information includes a set of inserts: Introducing CASC, training and accreditation, support and consultancy, sharing best practice, event management and CASC case studies. The materials provide a great overview of how we work with healthcare professionals to improve the care that they deliver and there are a number of excellent case studies that show how our work has enabled organisations and teams to collaborate with us on ventures that have improved care, assured best practice and led saved money. If you would like to receive your copy, please email your name and full postal address to info@clinicalauditsupport.com
Register for the CASC E-News!
Since we launched our E Newsletter in February 2007 over 1,000 healthcare professionals have signed up! The E News is free and delivered direct to your email account every two months. The newsletter provides you with a mix of CASC-related and other clinical audit news to help you keep up to date with what is happening in the world of clinical audit. If you have missed a previous issue of E News please visit the community section of our website where all previous issues are archived. Follow this link to sign up for your copy.