Audit and its uses
Audit is a tool for directly improving healthcare outcomes and ensuring patient care is provided in line with best practice standards. Other acceptable uses that take a more indirect path to improvement are to gather data that demonstrates clinical outcomes, to compare practice between different services/individuals, to inform and assure patients, to provide a reserve of information that can be used for research, to enhance the status of a specific intervention or area of practice through providing evidence of outcomes, to inform clinical practice on a longer term basis, to gather information to maintain patient safety, to inform commissioning and policy and to measure and improve equity of care (HQIP, 2011).
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Current projects
- RCR National Audit of Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer (MIBC) (data collection stage)
- UK Audit of Toxicity and Outcomes of Radical Chemoradiotherapy for Anal Cancer, Delivered Using Intensity Modulated Radiotherapy (IMRT) (reporting stage)
- National Re-Audit of Adjuvant Breast Radiotherapy Technique and Tumour Bed Boost Practice in Early Breast Cancer after Breast-Conserving Surgery (reporting stage)
- Survey of Opinions on Prostate Brachytherapy in the UK (reporting stage)
Completed projects
- National Audit of the Quality of Curative Intent Radiotherapy for Lung Cancer in the UK 2013
- Survey of Anal Cancer Chemoradiotherapy 2013 Citation
- Audit Leads Survey 2013 (M&F)
- The Royal College of Radiologists' Audit of Prostate Brachytherapy in the Year 2012
- A Royal College of Radiologists National Audit of Radiotherapy in the Treatment of Metastatic Spinal Cord Compression and Implications for the Development of Acute Oncology Services
- Caseload and Outcome after Brachytherapy
- National Re-Audit of Radiotherapy in the Treatment of Malignant Spinal Cord Compression (M&F)
- Summary Report of the Results of the Royal College of Radiologists’ National Breast Radiotherapy Audit 2011/12 (M&F)
- National Oesophago-Gastric Cancer Audit - 2012 Annual Report
- National Audit of Delays Commencing and Completing Chemoradiotherapy and the Implementation of Image Guided Brachytherapy for Cervix Cancer in the UK in 2010/11 (Summary) (M&F)
- Head and Neck Radiotherapy Pathway Audit 2010 (M&F)
- National Audit of Pre-Operative Staging and Treatment of Rectal Cancer (M&F)
- Substantial Improvement in UK Cervical Cancer Survival with Chemoradiotherapy: Results of a Royal College of Radiologists’ Audit
- Radiotherapy in England in 2007: Modelled Demand and Audited Activity
- Geographical Variation in Radiotherapy Services Across the UK in 2007 and the Effect of Deprivation
- Re-Audit of Radiotherapy Waiting Times, 2007
- Single Fraction Radiotherapy for Bone Metastases 2007
- Waiting Times for Systemic Cancer Therapy in the UK in 2006 (accepted Word document submitted to BJC) Text Tables Figures Appendix Link to BJC
- Radiotherapy Dose-Fractionation, Access and Waiting Times in the Countries of the United Kingdom in 2005
- The Management of Interruptions to Radiotherapy in Head and Neck Cancer: An Audit of the Effectiveness of National Guidelines 2005
- Re-Audit of Radiotherapy Waiting Times 2005
- Re-Audit of Radiotherapy Waiting Times 2003
- A National Audit of Radiotherapy in Head and Neck Cancer 2000/01
- A National Audit of Waiting Times for Radiotherapy 1998