BHIVA Clinical Audit Report 2001-2002

British HIV AssociationBHIVABRITISH HIV ASSOCIATION Clinical Audit Report 2001–2Registered Charity 1056354 October 2002About the A successful first yearclinical auditcommittee N THIS ANNUAL REPORT, the BHIVA developed severe immune deficiency.clinical audit committee presents This reinforces the need for a moreThe BHIVA clinical audit Iconclusions from the first annual UK strategic approach to promoting uptakecommittee began work innational audit of the quality of treatment of HIV testing, as recognised in theearly 2001 and is currentlyoffered to people living with HIV and government’s national strategy fordeveloping a rolling annualprogramme of audits. The AIDS. The audit was a resounding sexual health and HIV. By diagnosingaudits will: success, with a total of 2044 patients patients earlier, serious illness could be• evaluate the usefulness of reviewed from 146 clinical centres. It avoided and the need for costly hospitalBHIVA clinical guidelines; was conducted in partnership with three admissions significantly reduced.regionally-based audit groups, the North The BHIVA clinical audit committee• yield national aggregateand South Thames and West Midlands, plans to follow up these results throughdata on treatmentpatterns; and enabling these groups to follow up on its activities. Two further projects are inthe national project at a regional level. the pipeline: the second national audit• enable individual units toThe audit has shown that, once will look ...