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After Action Review training
After Action Reviews (AAR) are rapidly gaining momentum in healthcare, not least since the AAR approach was listed as a possible learning response by NHS England within the PSIRF documentation. To help healthcare teams ensure their staff fully understand the AAR process and possess the skills to chair AAR meetings, the CASC team have created a range of comprehensive AAR training packages. Learners can attend a virtual one-day training masterclass which is highly interactive and includes guidance and insights from an established AAR facilitator. More details are available here. For learners unable to attend a training day, we have also replicated content of the AAR masterclass and uploaded this onto an online portal. This course allows learners to access key AAR information and provides insights into how to effectively manage AAR meetings. As this course is available online, participants can choose to learn in bite-sized chunks at their own pace. More details are available here. If you have any questions about After Action Reviews, please get in touch.
Upload our online learning to your LMS!
We understand that healthcare organisations are under huge pressures: 1) financially and 2) to make sure that staff can access important training in relation to improvement techniques and maintaining patient safety. As a result, we are increasingly making our courses available via e-learning. In a nutshell, this means we can upload our e-learning onto your internal Learning Management System, allowing ALL your staff to access the training and relevant materials for as little as £2500 per annum. Click here to access a flyer with more details in relation to our AAR e-learning. Note, we can also offer clinical audit training via the same format. The best way to showcase the e-learning is to set up a 15-minute interactive demonstration. Just contact us via info@clinicalauditsupport.com for more details.
New resources to help promote clinical audit
We are delighted to be able to keep updating resources that we have designed and created (often with the help of our brilliant illustrator Amy Bradley) that help promote the value of clinical audit. We are determined to ensure that clinical audit is seen as a quality improvement methodology that makes a real difference to the care of patients and not a boring, tick-box exercise. With this in mind, we are building on our established resources by releasing two new images that help promote the value of clinical audit. The first plays on the view that clinical audit is a tick-box exercise and is available here. The second links to the clinical audit work of Florence Nightingale and is available here. In addition to our new resources, we have created short films that demonstrate the value of clinical audit. The one-minute offering is available here with the longer version available here. We have also created a poster which explains how valuable clinical audit professionals are, available here and a poster that demonstrates why national clinical audits are important, available here. All these resources can be freely used. However, they must not be adapted without our permission and CASC must be acknowledged when they are utilised.
Request your CASC information pack
CASC have developed an electronic brochure that provides you with more details of the work that we support. There are lots of examples of how we can support clinical audit and quality improvement projects, plus the brochure includes sections on: accredited training, consultancy, patient safety work, help we provide to staff in primary care, case studies, clinical audit awareness week, etc.
Take a look at ‘stuff CASC like’
The CASC team like to keep as up-to-date as possible and we enjoy examining a wide range of materials and resources. This ‘stuff we like’ section does what it says on the tin! We will re-fresh this section of our homepage approximately every month and our aim is to focus on highlighting useful and ideally less mainstream materials that those working in audit, QI and patient safety will find stimulating and useful.
Get a copy of CASC’s latest jobs bulletin
Since 2009 the CASC team have diligently searched through the NHS Jobs website to identify current clinical audit and clinical effectiveness vacancies. From this information we produce our weekly clinical audit jobs bulletin and typically this is released every Monday. By producing this document, we aim to save local audit staff looking for new opportunities lots of time.