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Join Clinical Auditorium on 24 June
Clinical Audit Support Centre and Healthcare Conferences UK are delighted to be partnering again to bring you the eighth edition of Clinical Auditorium. This free initiative was established in 2021 and over 300 delegates from around the globe have booked for the half-day session taking place on the morning of 24 June. The latest instalment of Auditorium comes at a perfect time, given the current leadership vacuum that exists in the profession. With N-QI-CAN consigned to history, HQIP providing little in the way of telling us all about plans for their new association and local clinical audit teams shrinking, this is a key moment in the history of clinical audit. The event will see Nancy Dixon from Healthcare Quality Quest (HQQ) focusing on how clinical audit teams can better demonstrate their true worth. Critically, the event will also feature heavily on the results of CASC and HQQ’s ground-breaking new survey that over 100 clinical audit professionals have completed. Feedback from the survey is concerning, frank, but also invaluable in terms of us understanding the current challenges facing the clinical audit community. To find out more about Auditorium and to book your place, here.
CASC launch new enhanced course
We are delighted to announce that we have launched a new one-day course entitled ‘Clinical Audit: Enhanced Skills’. This new and ground-breaking course comes at a time when clinical audit is enjoying a period of rejuvenation having been endorsed in 2026 as a vital quality improvement tool by NHS England. At the same time, long-standing challenges that have stopped clinical audit from reaching its full potential often remain at a local level, while developments and innovations particularly in relation to digital records and the increasing use of AI suggest clinical audit will be transformed over the next decade. This course will be relevant to clinical audit/QI professionals and those who want to take their clinical audit delivery to the next level. We will be providing innovative solutions to common problems that blight clinical audit and those attending the course will work collaboratively to generate useful resources. Moreover, all learners will be given 6-months access to CASC’s popular clinical audit e-learning portal, that costs over £200 per VAT. To find out more and access the course brochure, click here.
N-QI-CAN: the end of an era!
Sad news to report that NQICAN has died. No one seems to be confirming this, but that's what we are being told by people we trust. To all the volunteers who put in so much effort over 25 years we salute you! Earlier this year, NHS England were stating how important NQICAN were in their new best practice guide. Months later, NQICAN are gone, along with 30K of funding for the audit community. Many serious questions need to be asked including: why was there no consultation asking local clinical audit professionals for their views on NQICAN? Why were great people who offered to lead NQICAN in 2026 ignored? Why was the website left to rot in 2025/6? Why have so many key governance documents like the reimbursements for 24/25 and 25/26 not been published? Why no biennial report covering activity in 24/25? We were told at the March NQICAN open meeting, that our national network was seen positively and had achieved so much. The now infamous quotes presented at that meeting like 'NHSE recognise the value and impact of NQICAN' and 'this is an exciting opportunity for the future of NQICAN', now look utterly delusional. An amazing resource that had the backs of local clinical audit professionals has been epically mis-managed and turned into dust.
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.