Top 5 Learning Objectives

1. Introduce the fundamentals of clinical audit as a technique for reviewing the quality and standard of care being delivered by a healthcare organisation and its role in good clinical governance
2. Understand the five phases of the clinical audit cycle identifying the problem or issue, defining criteria and standards, data collection, comparing performance with criteria and standards and implementing change – and the activities and processes that should take place within each phase of the cycle
3. Manage the essential elements of risk management in healthcare as a way of understanding and reducing clinical risks, improving the quality of care and enhancing patient safety
4. Apply the principle tools and techniques through which effective clinical audit and risk management should be delivered
5. Identify the principle management skills through which effective clinical audit and risk management practices can be sustained