Clinical Audit Awareness Week 2024

Clinical Audit Awareness Week (CAAW) take places on Monday 24 June to Friday 28 June. This week will provide you with the opportunity to learn more about clinical audit and how you can undertake a clinical audit in your services.

The theme for this year’s HSE Clinical Audit Awareness Week

Local Focus, Global Impact: Celebrating Clinical Audit Awareness Week 2024

This year we are working in partnership with:

National Office of Clinical Audit (NOCA)
The Royal College of Physicians Ireland (RCPI)
The National Perinatal Epidemiology Centre (NPEC)

We celebrate this week alongside our colleagues from Health Quality Improvement Programme (HQIP) in the UK.

The NCCA aim to support local audit in whatever setting you are working in, mindful of the current challenging work environment.

Clinical Audit is about getting outcomes right for patients and the NCCA want to help you get your clinical audit right.

Stay up to date on the week and share your celebrations with us on social media

NCCA X (Twitter)

NCCA LinkedIn

Schedule of events

Monday 24 June

Majella Daly, Assistant National Director for the HSE National Centre for Clinical Audit launches Clinical Audit Awareness Week 2024.

Watch the introduction video

Tuesday 25 June

Join us for a QPS TalkTime special on Clinical Audit Awareness week.

View the session flier (PDF, 1 Page, 1.3 MB)

Objectives of the session:

hear from colleagues within the HSE NCCA, NOCA, NPEC and NSQI RCPI about the 2024 staff clinical audit survey
explore the effectiveness of national and local clinical audits within local healthcare settings, focusing on quality improvement implementation, enablers and challenges
discuss the findings which will help identify areas for improvement in clinical audit processes
explore how to use the findings to inform an action plan to make improvements in the HSE to support and build a culture for QI and close the clinical audit cycle

Speakers:

Dr Colm Henry, Chief Clinical Officer, HSE
Professor Conor O'Keane, Clinical Lead for Quality Improvement at NOCA
Dr Angela Byrne, Paediatric Radiologist, National Specialty Quality Improvement Programmes, RCPI
Karen Reynolds, National Centre for Clinical Audit
Edel Manning, Project Manager in the National Perinatal Epidemiology Centre (NPEC)

Wednesday 26 June

Close your eyes and imagine this: You’re a surgical nurse in general theatre. It’s the end of a long shift and you’re scrubbed in for your last case. The surgeon has closed up the patient when you realise the instrument count is incorrect and the patient is now already in recovery. What do you do next?

In episode 16, we hear from Teresa Donnelly, who shares how this incident in general theatre started her clinical audit journey. Teresa has since revolutionised the culture of general theatre at Sligo University Hospital, improving both patient and staff safety.

Hosted by Selene Daly, Clinical Audit Facilitator, HSE National Centre for Clinical Audit. Co-produced by Sheema Lughmani, HSE National Quality and Patient Safety Directorate.

Listen to the podcast