1. NICE and national clinical audit
Val Moore, Implementation Programme Director

2. NICE guidance Clinical guidelines Medicines practice guidelines
Public health guidelines
Social care guidelines
Technology appraisals (medicines)
Interventional procedures guidance
Medical technologies guidance
Diagnostic guidance

3. Used for Quality standards
NICE guidance
Clinical guidelines
Medicines practice guidelines
Public health guidelines
Social care guidelines
Technology appraisals (medicines)
Interventional procedures guidance
Medical technologies guidance
Diagnostic guidance
Used for Quality standards
development

4. Find all up to date recommendations and tools on NICE pathways
Clinical guidelines
Medicines practice guidelines
Public health guidelines
Social care guidelines
Technology appraisals (medicines)
Interventional procedures guidance
Medical technologies guidance
Diagnostic guidance

5. Why use NICE guidance? Sets a national standard Evidence-based
Improve and standardise patient care
Helps identify where resources may be wasted
Quality standards identify a small number of national improvement priorities across the pathway

6. NICE and clinical audit
Local clinical audit
Standards for individual trusts
Compare services in an organisation
Use or adapt NICE audit tools, or design your audit from scratch

7. NICE and clinical audit
Local clinical audit
Standards for individual trusts
Compare services in an organisation
Use or adapt NICE audit tools, or design an audit from scratch
National clinical audit
Standards for all trusts
Compare organisations
National clinical audit design audit, provide tools and feedback

8. NICE in national audits
National audit of schizophrenia – schizophrenia clinical guideline
SINAP – stroke guideline and QS
National inpatient diabetes audit – diabetic foot care guideline and diabetes in adults QS
National audit of dementia in general hospitals – dementia and delirium guidelines

9. How does NICE use national clinical audit data?
Guidance review decisions
Quality standards scoping
Uptake database on NICE website
Identifying
implementation
support priorities with
system partners

10. Considerations for the future
How will users respond to the fact that we cannot provide audit support for all NICE guidance outputs?
Consider when to finalise clinical guideline audit support e.g. when QS improvement priorities are known?
Is there mutual benefit to formalise communication links with national clinical audit teams?
What practical steps can improve co-ordination with national audits during the development of NICE clinical guidelines and audit tools?
Can we improve awareness of what is and isn’t in the datasets?
A process to suggest priorities for national audit based on NICE quality standards