Academy Audit Workshop Programme

DOCUMENT 8 CLINICAL AUDIT AND REVALIDATION: Work to agree definitions and data sources 1Dr Paul Lelliott, Chairman Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership As part of a wider programme of work on revalidation, the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges has 2agreed to work with the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership to consider how clinical audit might support the process of revalidation. Recommendations from this work will be included in the Academy’s documentation to be sent to the GMC for approval for revalidation. The objectives 1. To agree definitions of: i. a good clinical audit project; ii. adequate involvement in clinical audit by a doctor for the purpose of revalidation; iii. adequate response by a doctor to the results of clinical audit for the purpose of revalidation. 2. To propose what evidence a doctor might collect to demonstrate that the criteria that underpin the above definitions have been met for the purpose of revalidation; and where this evidence might be found and how it might be presented. 3. To set out options for the roles that might be played, in the process of using clinical audit to support revalidation, by: i. Colleges and Faculties; ii. appraisers in employing healthcare providers; iii. clinical audit staff in healthcare providers. Timetable for the work We intend that the results of this work will be part of the proposals for revalidation for consultation before the end of 2009. All material ...