Clinical audit
NICE provides clinical audit tools for all technology appraisals, clinical guidelines and selected interventional procedures and public health guidance. The aim of the clinical audit is to make the process of developing clinical audit projects easier through the provision of ready-to-use criteria, including exceptions, definitions and data source suggestions. For clinical audit tools published since November 2007, a data collection tool is also included. This tool can either be used in its entirety or 'locally' adapted to suit the requirements of your service. To help you use NICE clinical audit (and criteria) there is a guide available.
Where guidance recommendations span different clinical or service settings or they are aimed at several different audiences, NICE may produce more than one clinical audit for the guidance topic. The settings column on the right hand side of the table below can be used to sort clinical audit tools by their setting.
NICE clinical audit survey report 2011
Tell us what you think
We want to hear what you think of clinical audit and your experiences of using it.
External Reference Group
If you are a clinical audit specialist or healthcare professional who would be prepared to help us review the clinical audit tools, please apply to join our 'Audit Panel'.
This page was last updated: 18 January 2012
