BMJ 1998;316:1893-1894 ( 20 June )

Education and debate

Action on clinical audit: progress report

Letters p 1905

Abi Berger, science editor. 

BMJ

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Every year in the United Kingdom, millions of pounds are spent on clinical audit, and the results are arguably disappointing. "Action on clinical audit" is a two year project, funded by the NHS Executive, with the aim of shedding light on why clinical audit does not achieve the sort of changes and improvements in patient care that the audit cycle is expected to produce. Last September, 10 self selected hospital trusts signed up to the project.1 The arrival of the NHS white paper, with its call for clinical governance (trusts must now make strategic decisions based on clinical evidence and not simply on economic considerations), raises the profile of the action on clinical audit project even higher, and a second cohort of 12 trusts plans to join the project in late 1998. Each participating trust has identified a clinician, a manager, and an audit officer, who together make up a local action team. . . . [Full text of this article]
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