Day 1 Activity
Day 2 Activity

Time	Day 1 activity
Time Day 1 activity 09.30 – 10.00	Introduction by Trainer • Outline of objectives for course • Ice-breaker – Group activity
10.00 - 11.00	Brainstorm – what is quality? • History and development of quality – Internationally, UK, and Ireland • Overview of Continuous Quality Improvement • Features and benefits of Quality systems • Quality Improvement Organogram – how it all fits together • Overview of healthcare Quality Systems – Clinical Governance, Clinical Risk Management, ISO, EFQM etc
11.00-11.15	Break
11.15- 12.30	• Recap on Definition etc • Definition and gross overview of Clinical Audit Cycle • Involving the team – Stakeholder analysis Stage 1: Topic selection • Project criteria – group exercise to generate criteria • Overview of tools for generating and prioritizing topics • Brainstorm – group exercise • Multi-voting – group exercise
12.30 - 13.30	Lunch
13.30 - 14.30	Stage 2: Setting Clinical Audit Objective • Definition and purpose of objectives • Objective setting • Writing objectives • Objective setting/writing group exercise
14.30 – 15.15	Stage 3: Standard setting • Definition and purpose of standards • Definition of guidelines and protocols • Literature searches • Literature review Standard writing group exercise
15.15 – 15.30	Tea
15.30- 16.15	Stage 3 – continued • Definition and purpose of indicators • Formulating clinical audit indicators • Indicator writing group exercise
16.15 – 16.45	Communication group exercise
16.45 – 17.00	Discussions and conclusions for day

Time	Day 2 Activity
09.30 – 09.45	Re-cap and review of homework
09.45 – 10.30	Stage 4: Data collection • Clinical Audit Sample size • Methods of sampling • Retrospective/Concurrent data collection • Sources of data • Devising data collection tools
10.30 - 11.00	Stage 5: Data analysis
11.00 – 11.15	Tea
11.15-12.00	• Confidentiality/Ethical • issues/Consent • Codes of practice • Freedom of Information Act • Data protection Act
12.30 – 13.30	Lunch
13.30 – 14.30	Stage 6: Root cause analysis / Change management • Definition and purpose of Root Cause Analysis • Tools for Root Cause Analysis • Root Cause Analysis Group exercise • Overview of change management • Action planning • Report writing
14.30 – 16.30	Putting theory into practice: • Finalising your Clinical Audit project plan • Group feedback
16.30-16.45	Review of course Award of certificates