For episode 18 of the Clinical Audit and Improvement Podcast, Isabel Dighero and Molly Nichols discuss the management of suspected ureteric colic in A&E, including how it's audited and how improvements might be made.

This episode's guests:

Isabel Dighero is a core surgical trainee from Epsom and St Helier.

Molly Nichols is a core surgical trainee from Barts Heath.

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For episode 17 of the Clinical Audit and Improvement Podcast, Vicky Barsby, Cassandra Dye, and Neil Jones discuss the processes they went through in order to improve patient care in urgent treatment centres at Derbyshire Community Health Services.

This episode's guests:

Vicky Barsby is an Improvement, Innovation and Effectiveness Facilitator at Derbyshire Community Health Services. She started her NHS career as the IT clinical systems training team lead and caught the bug for QI and audit when she undertook some service improvement projects. Vicky continues to support staff in her current role so they can go on supporting patients.

Cassandra Dye is a data analyst and QSIR practitioner at Derbyshire Community Health Services who started in the NHS as an admin apprentice back in 2010. After an organisational restructure, Cassandra became a Quality Compliance officer before beginning training for her current role. She’s a blackbelt in lean six sigma and works within the Improvement, Innovation, and Effectiveness Team.

Neil Jones is the Service Lead for the North Urgent Treatment Centres at Derbyshire Community Health Services. He has 27 years’ experience as a qualified nurse within urgent & emergency care, including Out-of-Hours. Neil is also a Resuscitation Council (UK) Advanced Life Support Provider.

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For episode 16 of the Clinical Audit and Improvement Podcast, Madeeha Rahim-Rasool and Angela Ward join Suzanne Henderson to discuss data triangulation and the benefits it can have as well as the challenges involved.

This episode's guests:

Madeeha Rahim-Rasool is the Deputy Head of Clinical Effectiveness at Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. She has worked in both Acute and Mental Health NHS trusts, and her experience in Clinical Effectiveness has required her to oversee Trust-wide Clinical Audit planners, support senior directors with strategic work, and support the review of NICE guidelines.

Angela Ward is a Clinical Audit and NICE lead at Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust. She’s worked in both Acute and Community NHS Trusts and has helped engage staff with using clinical audit for quality improvement. She’s coordinated local audit plans, managed national project participation, promoted audit for accreditation and managed NICE compliance evidence.

Suzanne Henderson is the Programme Manager for AMaT. She was previously the project manager in the Clinical Audit and Effectiveness team at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals Trust. Suzanne had sixteen years' Clinical Audit experience before joining AMaT in 2020 and is a member of the Q Community.

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