The HSE National Centre for Clinical Audit toolkit provides a number of resources to support best practice when conducting a clinical audit. It contains the resources from “Clinical Audit – A Practical Guide 2023” in a format that is useable and editable for local use and adaptation.
In addition to supporting best practice in conducting individual clinical audits, the resources below will also support the establishment of the governance structures recommended in the National Review of Clinical Audit report (2019) for each local healthcare provider organisation.
For assistance with the Quality Improvement stage of clinical audit, it is strongly recommended you refer to the HSE Quality Improvement Toolkit.
The HSE National Centre for Clinical Audit is committed to further development of this toolkit. If you have any clinical audit resources or tools that you would like to contribute to this page, please send them to ncca@hse.ie
Please select titles below to access each section of the Toolkit:
- Clinical Audit Resource 1: Clinical Audit Checklist (MS Word)
- Clinical Audit Resource 2: Clinical Audit Proposal Form (MS Word)
- Clinical Audit Resource 3: Clinical Audit Report Template (MS Word)
- Clinical Audit Resource 4: Clinical Audit Quality Improvement and Action Plan (MS Word)
- Clinical Audit Resource 5: Terms of Reference for Local Clinical Audit Committee (MS Word)