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Our Train the Trainer accredited course is going virtual!
The CASC team have delivered our accredited Train the Trainer in Clinical Audit course for 15 years via face-to-face workshops. On 9 December 2025 we delivered the course virtually for the first time and the feedback from those who attended was exceptional with 100% stating they would recommend this course to colleagues. By transitioning the course to virtual learning, learners benefit from reduced course fees and do not need to incur travel time or costs. All the traditional elements of the course are now delivered online via a 7-hour one-day course. The course is fast-paced and packed with content, with delegates examining learner styles and exploring how to deal with difficult situations. Everyone attending can engage directly in understanding how to utilise CASC’s updated Teaching Toolkit. The course also focuses on how to deliver virtual audit training on established platforms like MS Teams and Zoom. Learners receive a certificate of attendance and can complete a post-course assignment and mini-teach to gain a Level 2 teaching qualification. Our next virtual course takes place on 19 March. Once again, we are offering an initial discounted rate of £250 per learner. Further details are here.
NHS England publish new national guide
After months of speculation, the wait is finally over with the publication of the NHS England’s ‘Clinical audit and registries: A best practice guide’. The guide sets out a unified approach for commissioning and overseeing clinical audit and registries across the NHS in England and within the audit and registries community. Across 41-pages there are ten sections focusing primarily on the delivery of national clinical audits and registries. The document states that its primary aim is to ‘ensure systems deliver timely, actionable insights that support clinical decision-making, enhance patient safety, improve healthcare quality and reduce inequalities’. The great news for local clinical audit professionals is that on page 5 NHS England have provided a clear definition of clinical audit that states a) audit is quality improvement activity and b) audit determines if healthcare is provided in line with evidence-based standards. To read the new guide, click here.
New resources to help promote clinical audit
We are delighted to be able to keep updating resources that we have designed and created (often with the help of our brilliant illustrator Amy Bradley) that help promote the value of clinical audit. We are determined to ensure that clinical audit is seen as a quality improvement methodology that makes a real difference to the care of patients and not a boring, tick-box exercise. With this in mind, we are building on our established resources by releasing two new images that help promote the value of clinical audit. The first plays on the view that clinical audit is a tick-box exercise and is available here. The second links to the clinical audit work of Florence Nightingale and is available here. In addition to our new resources, we have created short films that demonstrate the value of clinical audit. The one-minute offering is available here with the longer version available here. We have also created a poster which explains how valuable clinical audit professionals are, available here and a poster that demonstrates why national clinical audits are important, available here. All these resources can be freely used. However, they must not be adapted without our permission and CASC must be acknowledged when they are utilised.
Request your CASC information pack
CASC have developed an electronic brochure that provides you with more details of the work that we support. There are lots of examples of how we can support clinical audit and quality improvement projects, plus the brochure includes sections on: accredited training, consultancy, patient safety work, help we provide to staff in primary care, case studies, clinical audit awareness week, etc.
Take a look at ‘stuff CASC like’
The CASC team like to keep as up-to-date as possible and we enjoy examining a wide range of materials and resources. This ‘stuff we like’ section does what it says on the tin! We will re-fresh this section of our homepage approximately every month and our aim is to focus on highlighting useful and ideally less mainstream materials that those working in audit, QI and patient safety will find stimulating and useful.
Get a copy of CASC’s latest jobs bulletin
Since 2009 the CASC team have diligently searched through the NHS Jobs website to identify current clinical audit and clinical effectiveness vacancies. From this information we produce our weekly clinical audit jobs bulletin and typically this is released every Monday. By producing this document, we aim to save local audit staff looking for new opportunities lots of time.