CAAW23: Clinical Audit Awareness Week at SWB

From 19-23 June our trust participated in the national Clinical Audit Awareness Week (#CAAW23). This week runs every year and is used to promote the benefits of clinical audit as a quality improvement tool, both to celebrate the amazing work happening at SWB and get inspired by the work of trusts across the UK. The week was a great success and would not have been possible without the help of library and knowledge services, the catering team and the trust volunteers.

The clinical effectiveness team used the week to get out and about across the trust and celebrate our SWB Audit Heroes

(see next page). Thank you to everyone who came to say ‘hello’ at the Sandwell stand, and to everyone who helped share the Clinical Effectiveness resources across the Sandwell, City and Rowley sites. The team loved having the opportunity to connect with so many colleagues and hear about all the different projects happening across SWB.

So what now?

Clinical audit is happening everywhere, all the time, not just during #CAAW23, so the clinical effectiveness team would love to hear from you! If you’ve got a project, or want to get involved in a project, we can help.

For more information about clinical audit, clinical guidelines, NICE and learning from deaths, visit our Connect pages: https:// connect2.swbh.nhs.uk/governance/ clinical-effectiveness/, email us on swbh. auditteam-clineffec@nhs.net or tweet us @ SWBHCAudit.

SWB clinical audit heroes

This year there were five categories as part of the national healthcare quality improvement partnership “clinical audit heroes’ competition:

• Patient Safety

• Patient and Public Involvement

• Healthcare Inequalities

• Influencing Organisational Change

• Sustainability

Let’s celebrate our SWB audit heroes! (Further info about these projects can be found on the Clinical Effectiveness Connect page).

Patient Safety

Adherence to anti-embolism stockings following elective knee and hip replacements for VTE prophylaxis – D. Jimulia, K. Grewal, S. Mawji, S. Singal, R. Philip, A Malik and D Prakash

Re-audit of babies with chronic lung disease (CLD) of prematurity, being discharged home in oxygen following recommendations from previous audit 2018-2020. – F. Wootton, S.Kamupira and M Cynanh

QI Service evaluation: Improving preprocedure patient experience in Endoscopy in relation to NBM advice –S Pal, A Bautista, E Chamberlain and R Granada

ROTEM training – T Thompson, H Garston, D Dhaka and S Salim

Healthcare inequalities

National Audit of Care at the End of Life (NACEL) 4th Round – S Hunt, L Parkes, M. Blaber, A Lock, M Charalambides

Homeless support in ED – M Wardle, Homeless Patient Pathway and Alcohol Care team

Assessing the health needs of Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children – I Cowling, M Upatissa, M Fleeman and I Mahabeer Using audit to identify where improvement could be made to support

Sustainability

6-month follow ups for patients in the Stoke Pathway - S Banwell, S Gutzmore, L Chua, S Vasishta

Assessing TIVA usage in Anaesthesia –M Macdonald, C Brown, A Van Vuuren, D Dhaka

Patient and Public Involvement

Assessing TIVA usage in Anaesthesia – M Macdonald, C Brown, A Van Vuuren, D Dhaka

Darshana Dhaka

It’s clear that Darshana is very knowledgeable of how clinical audit can be used to improve patient care and put meaningful change into practice and she consistently highlights the value of her colleagues’ hard work in making improvement – an excellent example of living the SWB ARC values!