Certificate in Clinical Audit for Health and Social Care
Accredited by the University of Greenwich
A multiprofessional Clinical Audit course
Online Training
A new consortium called the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership has recently taken over the National Clinical Audit and Patient’s Outcomes Programme. The aim is to reinvigorate audit across both health and social care. This is an acknowledgment of the success of clinical audit in a range of settings and its potential for further development.
This course provides a practical approach to clinical audit design and management.
It teaches the underlying principles of effective audit planning, the appropriate use of several methods of data collection and the presentation of findings.
Over a hundred students currently hold the Certificate in Clinical Audit in Health and Social Care. They include audit and governance facilitators, nurses, doctors, midwives, occupational and physiotherapists, podiatrists, social workers and practice development managers.
THE AIM: To enable students to plan an audit of their own design.
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
By the end of the course students will be able to:
- Recognise the key role of audit within health and social care governance
- Differentiate between clinical audit, research and other types of enquiry
- Identify topics suitable for audit
- Design a project that will successfully complete the audit cycle
- Employ national and local standards against which to measure practice
- Select appropriate methods of data collection
- Present audit findings effectively
- Recognise the importance of involving service users in the audit process
- Understand the role of national and local audit programmes
WHO WILL BENEFIT:
- Staff new to governance and clinical audit
- Experienced clinical audit staff who wish to expand their knowledge of qualitative data collection methods
- Professionals who have responsibility for clinical audit within their team
- Healthcare staff who are trying to introduce audit to their organisation
C
ourse delivery
It is delivered in four units each requiring approximately seven hours study time. The sessions are a combination of reading, writing, exercises and discussion with other students and tutor. Students get to know each other and learn from each others ideas and experiences; some work in undertaken in small groups. The work can be completed at a time convenient to each student. There is tutor support at each stage.
ASSESSMENT
Students are required to prepare a 3000 word assignment (an audit proposal and personal reflection)
ACCREDITATION
For the past four years RPD has worked in academic partnership with the University of Greenwich. The course is accredited by the Faculty of Human Sciences, School of Health, University of Greenwich, as a Certificate in Clinical Audit for Health and Social Care (15 credits at level 3).
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In-house Clinical Audit Training
RPD staff provide talks, workshops and courses designed to meet the needs of the host organisation. The blended learning version of the Certificate in Clinical Audit for Health and Social Care is also available in-house. In addition, one and two-day programmes of training are offered. For example:
Getting Started with Clinical Audit
One-day course. Six hours CPD
THE AIM: To introduce participants to the process of clinical audit and its impact on patient care.
The programme includes an introduction to:
- The role of audit within clinical governance
- National audit programmes
- The audit cycle
- Planning an audit project, resources and skills required
- Setting standards and criteria for different types of audit
- Selecting suitable methods of data collection
- Ethical guidelines for audit activity
- Effective presentation of audit findings
- Involving service users in the audit process
WHO WILL BENEFIT:
All health and social care professionals who need to understand what audit can achieve for both individual teams and organisations.
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