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CASC head into third decade
The Clinical Audit Support Centre are delighted to announce that Summer 2026 marks our 20 years in business. We can’t quite believe that CASC were set up back in 2006 when the PM was Tony Blair and ‘I don’t feel like dancin’ by the Scissor Sisters topped the UK charts. Upon leaving the NHS in 2006, Stephen and Tracy were proud to be the first team to offer accredited qualifications in clinical audit - we tip our hats to the thousands of you that have studied for our courses and gained qualifications over the last two decades. We continue to provide best practice resources for clinical audit and offer challenge where we identify sub-standard delivery. It is a special feeling to be embraced and supported by the audit and QI community with many of you coming to us over the years to share your challenges and frustrations. We have also enjoyed broadening our portfolio of work to focus on QI methodologies and patient safety techniques. To celebrate our 20 years in business we are offering 20% off all our courses and e-learning resources until the end of 2026. Please contact us for more details.
Key new publications for clinical audit
2026 has been the year of key publications for clinical audit, commencing in January 2026 with NHS England publishing their flagship guide entitled Clinical Audit and Registries: A best practice guide. The guide is widely available. You can read CASC’s overview of this document here. Over the summer there have been several interesting articles published in relation to clinical audit that will be of interest to those working in the profession. Professor Scarlett McNally’s Clinical audit needs a shake-up article in The BMJ is very thought provoking and is available here. Meanwhile, Nicola Davey et al have published an interesting article exploring the relationship between clinical audit and quality improvement. This is a topic that local clinical audit professionals are constantly raising with us, so this article is timely and is available here.
Join our new courses
We are delighted to announce that we have expanded our portfolio of courses in 2026. With so much focus placed on maternity services in recent years and following the second Ockenden Report that highlighted poor quality clinical audit at Nottingham University Hospitals, we partnered with Sharon Clarke, Maternity Services Audit Lead to offer our new accredited one-day training course for those auditing maternity services. The course examines best practice in clinical audit with emphasis on maternity care and learners can complete an assignment to study for our associated Level 3 qualification. The first course ran on 14 September and has evaluated very highly. We are therefore delighted that we will be running the course again on 27 January 2027. More details are available here. In addition, we have created a new online course focusing on best practice in conducting After Action Reviews (AAR). Evidence suggests AARs have proved to be the most popular PSIRF learning response and yet many staff state they have only received limited training in AARs. Our interactive online course enables learners to work at their own pace, download bespoke materials and gain a thorough understanding of how to lead and participate in AAR meetings to help improve patient care. To find out more, click here.
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.