Audits

The Association commissions audits to improve healthcare services by evaluating how close practice is to best practice and to identify ways of improving the quality of health care provided. Audits are led by our members, are practice-based and an ongoing process.

A Clinical Audit is “a quality improvement process that seeks to improve patient care and outcomes through systematic review of care against explicit criteria and the implementation of change”

current accepted definition of clinical audit

endorsed by the National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE) in 2002

National Audit Group

Coordinates audit activity in Clinical Biochemistry on a national basis.

National Audit group

Wassif Samuel Wassif - Chair
Louise Ward - Deputy Chair
Nicola Barlow - Member - West Midlands
Lisa Berry - Member - Microbiology
Rachel Brixey-McCann - Member - Wales
Brendan Byrne - Member - Republic of Ireland
Gareth Davies - Member - WEQAS
Emma Dewar - Member - Scotland
Louise Duvall - Member - South West and Wessex
Hannah Fearon - Member - North West
Moises Hernandez - Member - Wales
Finlay MacKenzie - Member - UK NEQAS
Martin Mcfadden - IBMS
Claire Meek - Member - ACP
Deepa Narayanan - Member - Yorkshire
Brona Roberts - Member - Northern Ireland
Ross Sadler - Member - Immunology
Vaclav Stemberk - Member - Webmaster
Wassif Samuel Wassif - Member - Southern
Peter West - Member - Thames
Vacant - Member - Trent
Vacant - Member - Northern
Vacant - Member - RCPath

Latest national audits

Please note that all Audits are restricted to LabMed members only. Audits presented at the LabMed National Audit day are only available to attendees of the event for the first 12 months after the event. After 12 months they can be access by an LabMed member.

Audits

National Audit Group

Latest national audits

Past national audits by year

Validation study of CG cut-off and a retrospective study – the Italian experience

Regional audits