National IBD Audit Pre-Pilot

ƒƒ¾ƒƒƒ¾ƒ¾ƒƒ National Audit to Assess and Improve Services for People with Inflammatory Bowel Disease Project Summary The UK National IBD Audit aims to improve the quality and safety of care for IBD patients throughout the UK, by involving professional groups and patients in a national audit of individual patient care and of service resources and organisation in all hospitals The project is based on a collaborative working partnership between the British Society of Gastroenterology, the Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland, the National Association of Colitis and Crohn’s Disease and the Royal College of Physicians’ Clinical Effectiveness and Evaluation Unit. The project is funded by a grant from the Health Foundation and is a four-year, nation-wide, full cycle comparative audit with initial audit, subsequent dissemination and change implementation followed by re-audit. The audit aims to: Assess the current structure and organisation of care for IBD Assess the processes and outcomes of care delivery (inpatient and outpatient) in IBD Enable Trusts to compare their performance against national standards Identify resource and organisational factors that may account for observed variations in outcome Facilitate, develop and institute an intervention strategy to improve quality of care. Repeat the audit to prove that change has occurred Establish a series of measures that healthcare services can ...