The HSE National Centre for Clinical Audit (NCCA) provide a national focus for clinical audit to ensure that those who are conducting local, regional, and national audits have access to best practice information.

The NCCA are delighted to present to you the Fundamentals in Clinical Audit virtual training course delivered over one full day, developed in collaboration with the Clinical Audit Support Centre (CASC) in the UK.

The training is interactive and provides a wealth of educational resources and further signposting.

Eligibility Criteria

We would expect those enrolling to have limited or no experience of clinical audit and to have completed the Fundamentals in Clinical Audit session virtual programme (one full day) or have completed the Fundamentals in Clinical Audit e-learning programme on HSeLanD.

Note: It is strongly advised that learners enrolling on this programme have completed the Introduction to Quality Improvement e-learning module which is hosted on HSeLanD.

Design and Delivery

Programme will run from 10:00hrs to 13:00hrs

Workshop half day (morning session)

10:00 Registration

10:10 Welcome and Introductions

10:20 Developing the Clinical Audit Methodology

- Project Planning

- Approaches to collecting data

- Development of Audit Tools

- Development of Patient Surveys

- Choosing an appropriate sample for the clinical audit

- Workshop exercise to develop a clinical audit method and data collection tool

11:45 Break

12:15 Feedback session

- Learners presenting their project development and plans

13:00 Close