FOCUS on Clinical Audit in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
Emma Hardman and Carol Joughin
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Clinical Governance places expectations and responsibilities
on individuals and organisations to develop systems to ensure the
delivery of high quality care to patients. Clinical audit is an
integral part of this process as it assists multidisciplinary teams
to actively and systematically review their practice in order to
develop high quality services.
FOCUS on Clinical Audit in Child and Adolescent
Mental Health Services aims to 'demystify' the
process of clinical audit for those working in child and adolescent
mental health services. It provides a step-by-step guide to
clinical audit followed by examples of clinical audit projects
undertaken in child and adolescent mental health services across
Great Britain. While recognising the complexity and challenges
which are particular to this specialty, it provides professionals
with a pragmatic yet rigorous guide to clinical audit.
This book was developed with the help of many clinicians
within CAMHS who gave their time and support in providing real
examples of clinical audit projects.
It will provide professionals with:
- a step-by-step guide to undertaking clinical audit within
CAMHS
- examples of projects which have been undertaken by a range of
clinicians, including data collection tools and recommendations for
others who wish to carry out a similar audit
- sources of evidence and references for each audit topic
- a list of available resources for staff
- undertaking clinical audit in CAMHS
- tools to summarise and document individual audit topics
This book was produced by
FOCUS - a
strategic dissemination project which promotes effective practice
in child and adolescent mental health services. FOCUS is funded by
a grant from The Gatsby Charitable Foundation and is based at the
Royal College of Psychiatrists' Research Unit.