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eNewsletter - Issue 144 - November 2021

VUCA could change your life: 23 November

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VUCA is a fashionable acronym invented by the US military in 2000 to describe 21st century life. It has come true! Our learn at lunch on 23 November is about how people in the clinical audit and QI world stay sane when the world ambushes your (working) life… and how to prepare you for this. The three key elements of the workshop will be: 1) options for supporting your teams to cope and deal with chaos, 2) working with stressed and stroppy people and 3) the ways we can handle unpredictability: both personally and professionally. All learners will be sent a post-event resource pack. The session is being facilitated by Tim Sims. His resume is astonishing. He works across the NHS. He works with the United Nations. He has worked for the Royal College of Psychiatrists. He has even evaluated the work of HQIP! As always, this is a free session. The flyer here provides further useful information plus the zoom codes you will need to join us on 23 November.

CASC week is almost here: 22 to 26 November

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As many of you will be aware, earlier this year, HQIP and NQICAN took the decision to postpone Clinical Audit Awareness Week. Our understanding is that this will now be held in 2022 (date to be confirmed). With the expectation that #CAAW would take place in 2021, we spent money funding several initiatives and rather than let this go to waste, we have decided to showcase our plans in what would have been #CAAW21 week from 22 to 26 November. It is also worth remembering that local teams are still being encouraged to celebrate clinical audit at the end of November (as usual). We have devoted a small part of our website to our plans for 22 to 26 November, click here. After the success of our bake-off competition last year, we have decided to run this again. We have been delighted with the response to our Local Clinical Auditor the year competition and we will also use the week to celebrate staff who have worked in our profession for over 20 years. We have amended what will be our twelfth annual survey, reducing the data burden and this will be launched on 24 November. We have lots of other ideas and the best way to keep abreast of our plans is to visit the weblink or follow us on Twitter @cascleicester

Do you want to improve your career prospects?

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We know that clinical audit attracts a huge variety of people. Lots decide to remain within clinical audit for many years, whereas others us the skills and experience they gain from their time working in clinical audit as a springboard to other careers. So far, our previous Auditorium half-day session in partnership with Healthcare Conferences UK have proved incredibly popular and allowed us time to look at key issues in more detail. The purpose of the next auditorium on 13 January will be to focus on clinical audit as a career. We will examine how you can progress your audit career, while also focusing on what alternatives there are for those who fancy a new challenge. The CASC team will lead the session and plan to share data from a small project they commenced in August. The morning will also include speakers from local clinical audit and we will once again be joined by Dawn Chamberlain (Co-Chair of Clinical Audit, NHSEI). As a footnote, be aware that in October our seventeenth Learn at Lunch session was led by Emma Challans, who focused on ‘looking beyond clinical audit: options for career development’. The response to this talk was amazing and you can watch Emma back here. To find out about Auditorium and to book your place, click here.

Helen Bevan speaking at Audit Leadership Conference

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When it comes to improvement in the NHS there are arguably no bigger names than Helen Bevan (Chief Transformation Officer at NHS Horizons). Many of you will be aware of the brilliant ‘QI Improvement Methods Olympics’ that she ran via Twitter over the summer and her wider work with NHS Horizons. Helen (pictured) is one of the keynote speakers at Healthcare Conferences UK Clinical Audit Leadership Summit on 26 November. Helen is joined by other big hitters: Dawn Chamberlain (Co-Chair of Clinical Audit, NHSEI) and Dr Jane Youde (Clinical Director, National Clinical Audit and Accreditation Programme at Royal College of Physicians). The day will also feature Pam Mosedale (QI Clinical Lead at RCVS Knowledge) explaining how the veterinary profession are utilising clinical audit. The online event also includes speakers from the CQC, local audit teams and private healthcare. To find out more, click here. Also be aware you can gain 20% discount by quoting HCUK20CASC.

The National news: RCVS and HQIP

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At time of writing there is not a huge amount of national news to report. We must tip our hats to the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) for organising their Clinical Audit Awareness Week from 1 to 7 November. This is a considerable achievement in 2021 and we are thoroughly impressed with the way RCVS have used the @RCVSKnowledge Twitter account to showcase clinical audits and hold educational Q&A sessions. If you are interested in clinical audit, we encourage you to examine how the vets are taking an ever-increasing lead role. We can also report that on 2 November HQIP announced that Dr Josie O’Heney joined their team as the new National Medical Director’s Clinical Fellow in September. For more details, click here. Earlier in October, HQIP announced plans to commission five new national clinical audits all focusing on various cancers: breast, ovarian, pancreatic, non-hodgkin lymphoma and kidney. The value of this contract is £1.8million. To find out more, click here.

Tell your friends about our eNews

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We first launched the CASC e-Newsletter in February 2007 with the aim of providing those with an interest in clinical audit and QI with a free regular monthly update. Since that time hundreds of subscribers across the world have joined our circulation list. The newsletter provides subscribers with a mixture of CASC-related and other clinical audit, quality improvement and patient safety news to help you keep up-to-date with current events. Don’t forget that if you have missed a previous issue of the newsletter then you can visit the eNews section of our website where all previous issues are archived. If you wish to sign up for your own copy or know others who may be interested then please email: info@clinicalauditsupport.com




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