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ALT Meet, and say thank you to our Clinical Audit Team. Our Clinical Audit Team supports the delivery of audits, amongst other governance and quality processes. This week we’re saying thank you to members of the team, as well as Audit Leads across our Trust. Pictured is Julie Clift, Quality Delivery Manager; Caroline Beresford, Clinical Effectiveness Lead; Jennifer Rowan, Clinical Effectiveness Coordinator, Isobel Newbold, Admin Assistant; Sarah Jessop , Clinical Effectiveness Advisor (Surgery); Laura Zafiris, Clinical Effectiveness Advisor (Family Care); and Eleanor Pollard, Clinical Effectiveness Advisor (Medicine & DCSC).

ALT Meet one of our Audit Leads Julia Massey What is your name and job title? Julia Massey, Consultant Oncoplastic Breast Surgeon. Why did you decide to become an Audit Lead? I wanted to reform the breast surgery audit. Why is Audit important for your area? We have used audits to demonstrate where our practice is good and where we can make improvements. It is also a brilliant training opportunity and our junior doctors and medical students participate regularly. How can people contact you should they have an audit idea. [email protected]

ALT Meet one of our Audit Leads Dr Paul Sheridan What is your name and job title? Dr Paul Sheridan, Consultant Cardiologist and Audit Lead for the Medicine Division Why did you decide to become an Audit Lead? The hope of improving efficiency and quality of care is one of the things that motivates me. By doing this, our clinical workloads become more sustainable whilst we make iterative improvements to patient care. People often identify the issues but can feel powerless to highlight the issue and propose changes. Audit allows us to make objective measurements to demonstrate these issues and lever change. This is how audit can be used to improve our clinical work environment. Why is Audit important for your area? There is a wide and diverse set of medical conditions within medicine. Audit allows us to measure our performance against an ideal practise. The process of audits provides feedback and highlights how we can continue to improve over time.

ALT Meet one of our Audit Leads Ved Ramsewak What is your name and job title? Ved Ramsewak, Associate Specialist in Ophthalmology. Why did you decide to become an Audit Lead? It is an area I am drawn to and I see the auditing process as an invaluable tool for checking and rechecking trends and effects of changing practice having an impact of what we do. Why is Audit important for your area? Checking our local practice against national standards and comparing outcome of new/different practices. How can people contact you should they have an audit idea. At all of our audit/governance meetings, I go through the projected plan for the year and encourage anyone to come forward with ideas on how to improve the department. Even outside the meetings I have ‘corridor chats’ with anyone who wishes to chat with me about possible projects they might be interested it or best suited for, in their particular field/sub-specialty.