The Wessex Acute Frailty Audit
People living with frailty are at risk in hospital. We don’t always identify them when they arrive So we don’t always give them the care they need!
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Action on Audit: Injecting a few PDSAs to deliver service improvement
For decades the medical profession has worshipped at the altar of audit: embracing the method in...
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PDSA – Injecting a little improvement into Audit
For decades the medical profession has worshipped at the alter of audit: embracing the method in everything from large national confidential enquiries, increasingly complex extensions to NICE guidance and a key competency for all doctors in training. In the last decade even our NHS Masters have got in on the act – mandating nurses to complete weekly and monthly audits (think Safety Cross) to ‘maintain’ standards in everything from infection control to waiting times.
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