The HSE National Centre for Clinical Audit (NCCA) Clinical Audit Toolkit brings together the essential documents and resources to support best practice in clinical audit. It helps healthcare organisations establish the governance structures recommended in the HSE National Review of Clinical Audit (2019).
Clinical audit is a key component of quality improvement. It helps teams measure current practice against evidence‑based standards. It can help you to make the changes that improve patient care and the quality and safety of our services.
Key documents
Key resources
Please select titles below to access each section of the Toolkit:
- Clinical Audit Resource 1: Clinical Audit Checklist (Word document)
- Clinical Audit Resource 2: Clinical Audit Proposal Form (Word document)
- Clinical Audit Resource 3: Clinical audit templates
- Clinical Audit Resource 4: Clinical Audit Report Template (Word document)
- Clinical Audit Resource 5: Clinical Audit Quality Improvement and Action Plan (Word document)
- Clinical Audit Resource 6: Terms of Reference for Local Clinical Audit Committee (Word document)
Quality Improvement Tools
You can use the HSE Quality Improvement Guide and Toolkit to help with the Quality Improvement stage of clinical audit
HSE Quality Improvement Guide and Toolkit 2024.
Contribute to the 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 email ncca@hse.ie.