The Audit Trail Introduction and welcome Welcome to this our first Clinical Audit Newsletter for all healthcare professionals in Kirklees. The purpose is to communicate with as many colleagues as possible, to let you know what’s happening but also provide you with a means of letting us know what you are doing, what you would like to see happen and to share any useful information, ideas and examples of good practice. Clinical audit provides a very important means of ensuring what we do is effective. It also helps all those involved in healthcare, in both clinical and non clinical roles to be able to develop and improve services. Although this has always been the case, it is set to take an ever greater role in the quality agenda. We are very keen for the news letter to be interactive, supporting real twoway communication. Supporting an opportunity to acknowledge and celebrate the good work that often goes un-noticed, and where there is innovation and valuable lessons learned, that we do everything we can to share this. We will endeavour to do our best to let you know what’s happening, including examples of recently completed audits, hints and suggestions, as well as information about other resources to help strengthen people’s knowledge and understanding about clinical audit. The Newsletter will include a section about access to future training programmes to meet most peoples needs. Importantly we’ll try and make it light hearted and interesting, BUT we also want to hear from YOU. Please give us feedback and let us know what you think.
Issue 1 • November 08
The Clinical Audit Team The Audit team for NHS Kirklees is part of the Quality and Clinical Governance team. Clinical Audit is set to develop and grow, illustrating our strong commitment to the role clinical audit has to play to improve services for patients. Here’s a short introduction to let you know who we are:
Name: Victor Thompson Job Title: Quality and Clinical Governance Team Manager
Name: Janet Wheeler Job Title: Clinical Audit Co-ordinator
Responsibilities within the team: I support the Assistant Director of Quality and Clinical Governance in ensuring the PCT meets its requirements and lead on clinical Audit.
Responsibilities within the team: I work with the Clinical Governance Team Manager to develop and support Trust wide audits.
Tel: 01924 351 531 Email: victor.thompson@kirklees.nhs.uk
Tel: 01924 351675 Email: janet.wheeler@kirklees.nhs.uk
Name: Gemma Turtle Job Title: Clinical Governance Audit Facilitator Responsibilities within the team: I am within the Quality and Clinical Governance Team to support audit activity and training agendas Tel: 01924 351628
Email: gemma.turtle@kirklees.nhs.uk
Fun Puzzle We have included a Sudoku puzzle for you to complete at your leisure. This puzzle is classed as ‘easy’ and will therefore increase in difficulty each time ‘The Audit Trail’ is released. The aim of Sudoku is to complete the entire grid using the numbers 1-9. Each number can only be used once in each row, once in each column, and once in each of the 3x3 boxes. The solution to this puzzle will be included in the next ‘Audit Trail’. However, this can be obtained from myself (Gemma Turtle) anytime previously if needed.