1. Clinical Audit Tiebreakers

2. In what year did Sir Michael Rawlins (Chairman of NICE) state ‘The time has come for everyone in the NHS to take clinical audit very seriously’?

3. ANSWER: 2002 (in his foreward to the first issue of Principles for Best Practice in Clinical Audit)

4. According to official records, the number of soldiers who died from infectious diseases during the Crimean War in January 1855 was over 2,500. Following the work of Florence Nightingale and her team of nurses, what was the equivalent death rate in January 1856?

5. ANSWER: 42

6. A search for the term ‘clinical audit’via Google on 1 st January 2014 resulted in approximately how many total results?

7. ANSWER: 12,800,000

8. How many regional clinical audit networks existed in Autumn 2013?

9. ANSWER: 15

10. According to a national survey conducted in 2013, what proportion of clinical audit staff stated that they intended to still be working in clinical audit in 2018?

11. ANSWER: 59%