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.
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Agenda
Registration
Chair’s Opening Remarks
Professor Robbie Foy, Clinical Professor of Primary Care, University of Leeds (CONFIRMED)
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
- 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
Jane Murkin, Deputy Director Safety & Improvement, Quality Team, Nursing Directorate, Office of the Chief Nurse, NHS England (CONFIRMED)
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
Tina Strack, Associate Director, Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (CONFIRMED)
Questions & Answers
Comfort Break
Keynote: Consistently Improving Measures of Quality used in a Clinical Audit and Data Collection
- Stating the objective for a clinical audit properly
- Defining measures of quality for a clinical audit based on the audit objective
- Devising a protocol to define the rules for data collection
- Checking the reliability of data collection
Nancy Dixon, Director of Strategic Services, Healthcare Quality Quest (CONFIRMED)
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
Emily Arkell, Executive Director of Research & Quality Improvement, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (CONFIRMED)
Questions & Answers
Lunch Break
Breakout Networking Session: Building Connections for Audit Excellence
Join fellow professionals, audit leads and policymakers for an interactive networking session designed to encourage 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.
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
Dr Ben Bray, Evidence Generation Lead, Health Analytics Team & Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer, King’s College London (CONFIRMED)
Keynote: The State of the Nations Report Findings and Recommendations
Joylin Brockett, National Audit of Care at the End of Life (CONFIRMED)
Questions & Answers
Comfort Break
Case Study: Enhancing Data Collection and Management to Maximise the Potential of Quality Improvements
Amy Baker, Patient Outcomes Manager, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS FT (CONFIRMED)
Case Study: Quality of GP Referrals
Omar Taha, Trauma and Orthopedics Senior House Officer, Frimley Health Foundation Trust (CONFIRMED)
Questions & Answers
Chair’s Closing Remarks
Dr Farzana Hussain FRCGP, Portfolio GP, Newham Hospital (CONFIRMED)
Conference Close
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.
Sponsorship
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If your products, services, and solutions can support our audiences in their roles, and you want to make connections and generate new business with key stakeholders, decision makers, and influencers, then please contact us HERE
IMPORTANT: There are only a small number of sponsorship opportunities available to ensure maximum exposure and ROI – contact us today to secure your place.
Virtual vs F2F
Whilst F2F provide better options for networking, there are many distinct advantages of sponsoring our online conferences including:
- Wider geographical reach of delegates and a different audience who prefer online to f2f
- Lower sponsorship package costs
- No travel/accommodation
- Less time out of the office
- No stand materials required (lower costs)
- 1 of only 2 sponsors involved – less competition on the day
- Prime speaking slot in the morning of the conference including Q&A – less distractions and easier for delegates to hear/absorb information
- Receive all delegate data after the conference to follow-up directly with those who attend and don’t attend (small % but still key stakeholders)
- Ongoing exposure via OnDemand access (coming soon)
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