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18 December 2015
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Influenza vaccination sample audit

Have you started your clinical audit yet?

The College's Professional Competence Scheme has made a decision to promote an audit on influenza vaccination and in support of this, has developed a sample audit available at www.icgp.ie/audit.

Further to this, Dr David Hanlon, who is a GP and the national advisor and group lead for primary care in the HSE, informed us that he had an interest in facilitating an audit on this topic. David has liaised with the PCRS and will be contacting all GPs who hold a medical card contract to provide you with data from the PCRS on the vaccination of your patients who are medical card holders and aged 65 years or older, in order to assist you with the data collection aspect of audit.

If you are not a contract holder or wish to undertake your audit on other patient groups, the ICGP supporting documentation at www.icgp.ie/audit includes instructions for searching the different practice management systems or you may have access to the IPCRN flu finder.

The PCRS data is limited to medical card holders aged 65 years and over, however, we will look at a mechanism to expand this audit to other patient groups in future years.

If you do not receive your data from David and wish to utilise these resources to conduct an audit, please contact david.hanlon1@hse.ie . If you have any questions for the ICGP Professional Competence Scheme in relation to conducting your audit, please contact professionalcompetence@icgp.ie.