- Start Date - 18/05/2015
- End Date - 18/05/2015
- Start Time - 09:30
- End Time - 16:30
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From its inception, NOCA identified that clinical audit in isolation, without the rigor of governance and action on output would be ineffective. For this reason the NOCA Team will continue to work with hospital Quality and Patient Safety Committees, Clinical and Executive leads to ensure its audit output is interpreted and used to direct quality improvement to the benefit of patients.
In the last two years, NOCA have successfully tested original governance and escalation processes to the point where action from audit output can be measured. It is intended that the NOCA Team will build upon these structures and their established credibility to ensure as each audit stream is deployed that it is done to tested formulae. Providing feedback alone of audit output to individual clinicians or specialties will not guarantee quality improvement. NOCA aims to continually work with the public and independent sectors, to ensure clinical governance structures are established and maintained to receive the output of national audit streams.
We are hosting our inaugural ‘NOCA Conference 2015, Managing what we measure’ on Monday 18th May in the Cheyne Theatre, RCSI, 123 St. Stephen’s Green. We want to use the day to take stock of how our national clinical audit projects have evolved and look to building awareness to the value of continual national clinical audit to support quality improvements for the benefit of our patients and clinicians.
We are delighted to have Professor Danny Keenan, Medical Director of Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP UK) as keynote speaker. Professor Keenan, a Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon at Manchester Royal Infirmary (MRI) provides clinical direction to the extended HQIP Team and all relevant clinical communities, promoting clinical audit and QI in medical settings. Previously, Professor Kennan was Clinical Director at the Manchester Heart Centre, based at MRI, from 1998 until 2002 and he is honorary Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery to the University of Manchester. NOCA look forward to his sharing HQIP challenges and experiences over multiple speciality national audit and quality improvement programmes.
Please visit http://www.noca.ie/index.jsp?p=1104&n=1940 to register for this Conference.