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

Dr W S Wassif - Chair
Dr L J Ward - Deputy Chair
Ms H Fearon - Member - North West
vacant - Member - Trent
vacant - Member - Northern
Dr D Narayanan - Member - Yorkshire
Dr B V Roberts - Member - Northern Ireland
Dr B Byrne - Member - Republic of Ireland
Dr E Dewar - Member - Scotland
Mrs L Duvall - Member - South West and Wessex
Dr W S Wassif - Member - Southern
Mr P S West - Member - Thames
Moises Hernandez and Rachel Brixey-McCann - Wales
Dr N Barlow - Member - West Midlands
Dr C L Meek - Member - ACP
Mr M Mcfadden - IBMS
vacant - Member - RCPath
Mr F MacKenzie - Member - UK NEQAS
Mr G Davies - Member - WEQAS
Dr R Sadler - Member - Immunology
Dr L Berry - Member - Microbiology
Dr V Stemberk - Member - Webmaster

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