Audit is a quality improvement exercise and involves reflection on your practice - whatever that constitutes. » read more
The Medical Council have agreed to consider this issue further. However, they have stated that the practitioner should audit their own clinical activity whenever this is undertaken, even if only for short periods during the year. » read more
Yes, the ICGP has developed tools to enable doctors to complete HIQA's Safer Better Healthcare Standards and these include audit options, quality improvement plans and a patient satisfaction survey. » read more
This poses different challenges. In order to overcome the difficulty of having very few patients it may be necessary to undertake a number of re-audit cycles of a number of criteria. » read more
Yes. Audit is about improvement. You should be changing or improving things as a result of your audit. » read more
The main aim of the audit is to test whether you are doing what you should be doing by comparing yourself to a guideline. » read more
Practice audits do not have to be clinically focused but can be a quality improvement exercise applying the principles of audit. » read more
Doctors may need to take leave from practice for a number of reasons. This is understandable – life happens and achieving CPD is sometimes not feasible. » read more
The audit report or any information requested will not be such that it will compromise patient confidentiality as patients would not be identified in same. » read more
No. None of the activity you include on your ePortfolio should include patient identifiers. Your clinical audit should only include de-identified patient data. » read more
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