The Clinical Audit Conference 2025: Elevating Patient Care Standards
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Overview
Clinical audits are important in ensuring quality and standards of patient care are constantly improving. By identifying deficiencies in care delivery and adherence to clinical guidelines they empower healthcare professionals to provide consistently high-quality care. They function to guide senior professionals and policymakers in delegating resources and training into specifically selected areas needing improvement. Further benefits of auditing include improving cost-effectiveness of the NHS, improving NHS accountability and transparency and improved outcomes for patients.
- There are approximately 60 National Clinical Audit programmes in the UK.
- Public approval of the NHS is the lowest it has been since 1983 (24%) (British Social Attitude Survey, 2023)
- In 2021/22 there were 1.6 million patient interactions with NHS services per day (NHS)
- International comparative analyses show the NHS is one of the top-performing and most affordable healthcare systems in the world (NHS)
Join us at The Clinical Audit Conference 2025: Elevating Patient Care Standards:
Hear expert updates on national clinical audits and standards, learn from best practice case studies, and enhance patient involvement and staff engagement. Network with colleagues to discuss challenges and solutions in conducting audits and improving stakeholder engagement.
Why Attend?
✓High-level keynotes from senior NHS professionals
✓Hear best practices in implementing audit recommendations
✓Hear recommended best practice case studies from National Clinical Audits
✓ Gain 8 hours of CPD points towards your yearly quota
For more information or to make a booking please call 0330 058 4285
Agenda
Registration
Chair’s Opening Remarks
Keynote: The Value of National Clinical Audits
- Aligning the NHS services with the best up-to-date practices
- Promoting equality of patient care across the entire country
- Identifying inefficiencies within the NHS and saving costs
- Using insights gained from audits to support a culture of collaboration, self-improvement and accountability
- Supporting policymakers in the delegation of resources, training and staff
Keynote: National Clinical Audits: Where Data Improves Outcomes
- Overviewing how audit findings translate into practical applications for healthcare professionals
- Identifying how audits illustrate emerging trends and areas for research within the NHS
- Incorporating patient reported outcomes to create an inclusive picture of NHS success
- Illustrating the long-term changes that audits have helped implement within the NHS
Key Supporter Session
Questions and Answers
Comfort Break
Case Study: Improving Stroke-Care with Audit Data
- Outlining the latest updates and recommendations from The Sentinel Stroke National Audit Programme (SSNAP)
- Considering how a personalised reviews of people with strokes six months after the event can be increased and improved
- Reducing the time from stroke onset to hospital admission and subsequent progression to specialist care on a stroke unit by collaborating with regional networks
- Responding to the need for ongoing support and regular patient reviews when recovering from the life-changing effects of acute stroke and ensure that all stroke survivors receive formal follow-up 6 months after their stroke
Case Study: Auditing Paediatric Care
- Outlining the findings from the latest childhood diabetes audit
- Highlighting the positive relationships that caregivers have with parents
- Ensuring families are educated about the importance of understanding the process of caregivers, including the creation and signposting of resources to support families
- Ensuring caregivers are provided with the skills and training to be able to ask each family about any financial challenges they face, and to signpost to national and local sources of information and support
Case Study: Clinical Audits at a Local Level
- Exploring how clinical audits guide NHS trusts and local authorities in line with NICE policies and CQC standards
- Improving the general quality of local audits
- Examining the efficiency of data collection from local services and how information gathered and provide customised data collection systems to facilitate data collection, aggregation, analysis and reporting
- Producing audit criteria to standardise local audit and permit comparison
- Maximising the impact of local audits by having a lead clinician, a robust methodology, involving multi-level professionals, involving management and clearly presenting results
Questions & Answers
Lunch Break
Keynote: Consistently Improving Audit Criteria and Data Collection
- Ensuring audit criteria is in line with latest evidence-based guidelines and latest research
- Involving healthcare professionals, such as clinicians, nurses and GP’s when defining and outlining audit criteria
- Strategies for identifying and filling data gaps, such as underrepresented patient groups or specific clinical outcomes
- Incorporating patient-reported outcomes and experiences into audit criteria for a more comprehensive view of care quality
Key Supporter Session
Questions and Answers
Breakout Networking Session: Building Connections for Audit Excellence
Join fellow healthcare professionals, audit leads, and policymakers for an interactive networking session designed to foster collaboration and share insights. This informal breakout provides a platform to exchange experiences, discuss challenges, and explore innovative solutions in clinical auditing. Participants can connect with peers from different specialties, regions, and roles, paving the way for partnerships that drive meaningful improvements in patient care.
Comfort Break
Keynote: Addressing Performances of Clinical Services
- Reframing critical narratives to improvement by focusing on the potential for positive change
- Highlighting actionable insights and pathways for remediation
- Offering guidance, training, and resources to help teams act on recommendations and improve their performance
- Promoting a blame-free culture where negative findings are viewed as part of a continuous learning process
Case Study: Collaborating with Patients to Improve Healthcare Processes and Outcomes
- Exploring how patients can draw upon their own experiences to support clinical audits
- Making audits accessible for the public with clear care improvements outlined to illustrate their effectiveness
- Co-developing audit criteria that support the public’s NHS concerns, such as accessibility to services, waiting times and improved patient outcome
- Incorporating patient feedback into audit success criteria
Questions and Answers
Chair’s Closing Remarks
Previous Speakers
Joylin Brockett
Senior Project Manager
Audit Team NHS Benchmarking Network
Professor Stephen Prowis
National Medical Director
NHS England
Professor Danny Keenan
Medical Director
HQIP
Craig Short
Quality Improvement Officer
Sherwood Forest Hospitals
David Harrison
Head Statistician
Intensive Care National Audit & Research Centre
Dr Farzana Hussain FRCGP
Portfolio GP
Newham Hospital
Testimonials
“A very relevant event for everyone involved in quality improvement”
“The session was very informative, it was a multidisciplinary approach which had something for everyone and was adoptable”
“Really professionally run conference with engaging and varying high calibre speakers.”
“Case studies and presentations from experts were insightful and highlighted best practices in audit and clinical governance.”
Why You Should Attend?
✓High-level keynotes from senior NHS professionals
✓Hear best practices in implementing audit recommendations
✓Hear recommended best practice case studies from National Clinical Audits
✓ Gain 8 hours of CPD points towards your yearly quota
Who Should Attend?
| Job Title Example | Organisation Examples |
| Consultant’s | NHS trusts |
| GP’s | CQC |
| Nurses | Universities |
| Clinical Audit Leads | Royal Colleges |
| Quality Improvement Practitioners | HQIP |
| Clinical Directors | NHS Improvement |
| Clinical Data Analysts | Audit Programmes |
Pricing Options
PRIVATE SECTOR
Your delegate place at this leading conference gives you: Full access to the conference; E-guide; Networking opportunities during the day; Access to presentations post conference; 8 CPD Points.
PUBLIC SECTOR
Your delegate place at this leading conference gives you: Full access to the conference; E-guide; Networking opportunities during the day; Access to presentations post conference; 8 CPD Points.
VOLUNTARY SECTOR
Your delegate place at this leading conference gives you: Full access to the conference; E-guide; Networking opportunities during the day; Access to presentations post conference; 8 CPD Points.
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