• Clinical Governance Structures • The Functions & Process of a Clinical Audit • Defining Aims (goal setting) - Selecting Standards & Criteria • Data Collection and Analysis

All healthcare organisations, whether large acute hospitals, community or primary care centres are under increasing pressure to deliver safe, high quality, and effective patient care. Clinical governance provides a framework for understanding the requirements for implementing systems to ensure quality service.

Clinical audit and feedback aim to monitor clinical quality and provide methods for identifying opportunities for improvement in delivery of healthcare and patient outcomes. An audit cycle is only as strong as its weakest link.

This one-day training course will teach you:

• What you need to know regarding clinical governance structures
• Key challenges often faced in the process
• Clarify your own role in the process
• Examine clinical audit procedure in detail
• How to set goals, collect and analyse the data
• Insights on audit report writing and the most effective way to present your findings

Course Content

• What you need to know about clinical governance and how it has evolved
• The building blocks of clinical governance
• Key challenges
• Your role in clinical governance
• The clinical audit cycles.
• Benefits for the organisation, staff, and patient/client
• Defining aims (goal setting) and selecting standards and criteria
• Data collection and analysis
• Feedback
• Audit report writing and presenting your findings

Who Should Attend

This course will be of interest to all healthcare professionals to seek to have a better understanding of clinical governance.  The course will also be of great benefit to those who will be / are engaging in a clinical audit including doctors, practice managers, practice nurses, directors of nursing, records administrators, quality, safety and risk managers.

Certification

On completion of this one-day training course, you will receive your Certificate of Attendance. Please note certificates are issued at the close of the training course to participants on completion of the course.

This course may qualify for CPD points. Please check directly with your association or awarding body to see how many points they will award.

Cost

An ‘Early Bird’ discounted rate of €485 is currently available. This training course normal rate is €585. Places are limited and are allocated on a first come first served basis. PLEASE NOTE THE EARLY BIRD RATE CLOSES 3 WEEKS PRIOR TO COURSE DATE. The course cost includes all course documentation and Certificate of Attendance.