Clinical Audit is a mandatory element of the Professional Competence Scheme for all Medical Practitioners.

For those involved in clinical practice, a quantitative and qualitative assessment of any aspect of your clinical practice is suitable material for an audit. For example:

• Use of thromboprophylaxis or compliance with a policy
• Outcomes after a particular surgical procedure (compared with national or international standards).

In many cases, these may be submitted and/or presented at national or international meetings and the published abstract or the presentation may be used as evidence.

If you are finding it difficult to identify a topic for audit, the intercollegiate group looking at the prevention of surgical site infections have developed a number of templates showing appropriate infection control audits which could be performed in most surgical units. This should be presented and discussed at a departmental or hospital meeting and a summary of the findings used as evidence.  Please click on below link for a sample audit.

Practitioners who are retired or whose work is mainly Med-Legal work, the sample template below may be of assistance when completeing a Med-Legal assessment audit.  This should be presented and discussed at a meeting and a summary of the findings used as evidence.   Please click on below link for template.

Satisfactory participation in a national audit organised by NOCA www.noca.ie  may also allow you to meet the audit requirements and these differ from audit to audit. NOCA can provide more details and are in a position to automatically add this to your portfolio when you have completed the process.   Contact the NOCA office for more information : deirdremburke@noca.ie


Preventing Surgical Site Infections Sample Audit

Med-Legal sample template audit