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Watch out for next E News and E journal
The Clinical Audit Support Centre Ltd would like to wish everyone Happy New Year! Please be aware that the recent poor weather has led to a slight delay in the production of our latest E Newsletter and Issue 5 of our electronic journal, Clinical Audit Today. However, both are nearing completion and will be released later this month. We are also in the process of upgrading our website and updated sections will be unveiled very soon. We intend to update our services and training pages and we are working on the release of more videos and podcasts. Watch this space!
Book now for Healthcare Events Tenth Annual Audit Conference
Healthcare Events tenth annual audit conference is set to take place in London from 9th to 10th February 2010. The conference is a well-established part of the quality assurance calendar and attracts many expert and keynote speakers from across the UK. This year’s conference is sponsored by HQIP. CASC will be exhibiting at the event and Stephen and Tracy are delivering a number of presentations and updates. The conference also includes a number of international speakers – Dr Ulrich Weinand (from Italy) and Dr Marius Buiting (from the Dutch Institute of Healthcare Improvement). For more details, click here.
Book for Art of Being Brilliant on 19th May 2010
New Year, New You! If you want to get your new year off to a great start then Andy Cope’s Art of Being Brilliant course will be perfect for you! Andy is an accredited trainer/best selling author and his Art of Being Brilliant Day will help you review your working practices and inspire you to make positive changes that will make a real impact. The course has run twice previously and feedback has been exceptionally positive with previous attendees finding the day incredibly thought provoking and useful. The focus is on personal reflection and the messages are simple with meaningless management speak banned! Attendees come from across the NHS and this ensures a great mix of clinical and non-clinical staff taking part in the workshop. Contact the CASC team to book your place.
Podcast for CARM Fair now available online
The Clinical Audit Support Centre were invited to exhibit at the annual Clinical Audit and Risk Management (CARM) Fair that took place in Manchester from 2nd-3rd November 2009. The two-day event was organised by Central Manchester Foundation Trust and incorporated a poster competition that attracted over 100 entrants and presentations from national and local speakers. Keynote speakers included NCAAG member Danny Keenan looking at national developments in relation to clinical audit and Sarah Corcoran providing an overview of local quality-related successes in 2009. By clicking here you can access a ten minute podcast recorded Joe Coltman, Sam Rowlands and Tracy Ruthven that reviews the event.
Update on CASC team and contact details
The Clinical Audit Support Centre are delighted to announce that Sharon Nijjar (pictured) has joined our team as Project Manager. Sharon has previous NHS experience and graduated from De Montfort University with a degree in Management and Finance. Sharon will take responsibility for leading on a number of CASC initiatives and joins us from her previous role as Project Manager at Wolseley UK. We would also like to make you aware that our contact details have recently changed. Our new office telephone and fax number is (0116) 2786926. However, our previous (07834) 914419 telephone number can still be used to contact us, but this should only now be used in the case of urgent enquiries.
CASNET conference almost full – book now!
The Clinical Audit Support Centre are now taking bookings for the local CASNET conference to be held at Enterprise Park in Derby on 27th January 2010. The event aims to showcase clinical audit work across the East Midlands/Trent region and the day has been sponsored by HQIP. The event is entitled: “Clinical audit: how do we do that?” and will be chaired by Pat Bowles. Keynote speaker is Mandy Smith from the HQIP’s Local Quality Improvement Team, with the remainder of the day made up of short workshops looking at the implementation of clinical audit at a local level. The event will also incorporate a poster exhibition and bookings can be made by sending your details to info@clinicalauditsupport.com.
CASC work on patient safety making an impact!
The Clinical Audit Support Centre have an excellent working relationship with a number of national bodies and we are delighted to report that our work with the Royal College of General Practitioners providing online training information in relation to Significant Event Audit is now complete. If you would like to access the relevant materials, please visit http://www.e-lfh.org.uk. In addition, CASC’s recent work on reviewing SEA reports has led to further work across the East Midlands with all PCTs reviewing the content of SEA’s using CASC’s analysis tool. This work is now being developed further and we hope to update the analysis tool so that all PCTs can use it from December 2009. Further detailes will be provided at Healthcare Event’s Risk and Patient Safety conference in London on 24/25 November.
Issue 18 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 seven inserts: Introducing CASC, training and accreditation, support and consultancy, sharing best practice, event management, train the trainer in clinical audit 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.
Recent publications relating to clinical audit
Since the publication of the Chief Medical Officer’s report Good Doctors, Safer Patients (2006) concluded “clinical audit falls short of its potential” work has begun to reinvigorate clinical audit in the UK. With this in mind, there have been a number of important national documents published relating to clinical audit. Details of the most influential include:
February 2008 – Department of Health update on clinical audit
January 2008 – new arrangements for clinical audit, published by the Department of Health
February 2007 – Trust, Assurance and Safety white paper, published by the Department of Health. Click here to find out more