CPD: 5 minutes

QI is something everyone can benefit from –not just veterinary teams, but animals and owners too. 

CPD: 20 minutes

Pam Mosedale, QI Clinical Lead, explains the difference between clinical governance and QI and how QI tools can help practice teams.

CPD: 5 minutes

Melissa Donald, Chair of RCVS Standards Committee, explains why clinical governance is a Code of Professional Conduct requirement for vets and nurses.

CPD: 10 minutes

Remind yourself about what the Code of Professional Conduct says about clinical governance.

CPD: 15 minutes

Anne Lawson one of the RCVS Practice Standards Assessors, explains what all practices need to do at the different levels of the Practice Standards Scheme (PSS), from core standards to the awards.

Have a look at the clinical governance module of the Practice Standards Scheme. Ideal to print off and share amongst your team.

CPD: 30 minutes

Lizzie Lockett, CEO of the RCVS, discusses her personal perspective on QI, why it's important for all people working in practice to be alive to change, and RCVS initiatives that support the adoption of QI. 

CPD: 12 minutes

What do the terms 'quality healthcare' and 'QI' mean in a veterinary context?

Angela Rayner, Head of QI at CVS, and Chris Gush, Executive Director of RCVS Knowledge, explain in this QI Feature.

CPD: 40 minutes

How can you get your team on board to deliver QI? 

Shobhan Thakore, Clinical Lead for the Scottish Quality and Safety Fellowship Programme, discusses fear of blame within the NHS and recent initiatives to help manage expectations, engage and work with the team to respond to change.

CPD: 18 minutes

Why is QI so important in practice?

Find out in this podcast with Angela Rayner and Pam Mosedale.

CPD: 7 minutes

Veterinary Nurses can lead their practice teams in QI. In this Vet Times article, Liz Cox explains how.

CPD: 20 minutes

If you're wondering how to start setting up QI in practice, listen to Lizzy Whiting, Highly Commended in the 2020 Knowledge Awards, as she chats to Pam Mosedale about her experiences. 

CPD: 13 minutes

Read this article from Angela Rayner, Head of QI at CVS,  for tips on how to take those first steps in QI.

This document includes examples of QI principles and tools which can be implemented within your practice to form your clinical governance plan. 

CPD: 12 minutes

Anne Lawson, PSS Assessor, chats with Pam Mosedale about how QI fits into the RCVS Practice Standards Scheme.

CPD: 16 minutes

Listen to passionate QI advocates Lizzy Whiting and Pam Mosedale in conversation with Nicky Paull, retired vet, ex-BVA President and Chair of the VDS Board.

CPD: 30 minutes

Watch this webinar from Lizzy Whiting on how to have effective QI meetings in practice.

CPD: 25 minutes

How can you utilise systems and meetings to aid communication in practice? 

Pam Mosedale, QI Clinical Lead, chats to Professor John Williams, National Surgical Lead at Vets Now.

CPD: 15 minutes

Journal clubs can provide a framework for you to explore the latest research and apply what you have learned in clinical practice.

Sally Everitt, inFOCUS Clinical Lead, talks to Pam Mosedale, QI Clinical Lead, about how to start a journal club, including how to select and critically appraise papers.

CPD: 10 minutes

What did you bring back from your last CPD? In this webinar, Dr Marnie Brennan explains how to look at what you learned critically.

CPD: 5 minutes

Journal clubs don’t have to depend on the team being in the same building. Listen to Rachael Bacon, RVN, explain the benefits of group chat journal clubs.

CPD: 15 minutes

Have you ever thought about whether your clients care if your practice participates in QI activities? 

Caroline Freedman, the representative for pet owners on the RCVS’ Practice Standards group, chats to Pam Mosedale about the clients' perspective. 

CPD: 2 minutes

How can you get the most out of your CPD? Linda Prescott-Clements, RCVS Director of Education, explains about using reflection in CPD.

CPD: 1 minute

RCVS Director of Education Linda Prescott-Clements discusses reflection's central role in outcomes-focused CPD.

CPD: 25 minutes

In this webinar, Pam Mosedale explains exactly what clinical audit is, and why we should be getting involved.

In this webinar, Pam Mosedale explains exactly how you can start getting involved in clinical audit.

CPD: 30 minutes

In this podcast, Lesley Moore RVN, Principle Nurse Manager at Vets Now Macclesfield speaks with Pam Mosedale about how introducing a quarterly clinical audit and tailored training for nurses elevated the practice’s general anaesthesia and sedation monitoring. 

CPD: 35 minutes

Pam Mosedale and Charlotte Hartley advise on getting started with clinical audit in practice, discussing topics, benefits and barriers.

CPD: 20 minutes

Pam Mosedale talks to David Ashcroft, Lead Assessor of the RCVS Practice Standards Scheme (PSS), about clinical audit and why it has been included in General Practice level of the PSS.

CPD: 60 minutes

This course will help you learn how you can improve quality by better understanding your practice and processes through clinical audit.

CPD: 15 minutes

CPD: 30 minutes

This document by Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP) sets out updated criteria for best practice in local clinical audit. 

You can use this template to assist you in performing a clinical audit in your practice.

A handy infographic that explains the process of performing a clinical audit. Ideal to print!

CPD: 12 minutes

Lou the Vet Nurse tells us why she finds clinical audits so useful, and how you can follow in her footsteps.

CPD: 11 minutes

Read how the implementation of clinical audit and checklists allowed one practice to investigate and improve their intravenous catheter complication rates.

CPD: 25 minutes

Listen to Pam Mosedale and Margaret Mary Devaney, Head of Patient Safety at the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, talk about moving beyond auditing and embedding a system of continuous improvement.

CPD: 30 minutes

Pam Mosedale chats to Daniel Pang, an Associate Professor of Veterinary Anaesthesiology at the University of Calgary about his clinical audits in both small and large animals, covering subjects such as hypothermia management. 

CPD: 10 minutes

Samantha Thompson, RVN and Post-Registration Programme Manager for the Linnaeus Group, discusses her post-operative hypothermia audit and how the team used the results to make changes within practice.

CPD: 60 minutes

Once you have your infection control guidelines in place, how do you know if they are helping to improve your patient, client, and practice team’s safety? 

CPD: 10 minutes

Meghan Conroy, RVN, discusses her case example, which looks at the prevalence of ear cytology performed before and after antibiotic treatment across her practices.

CPD: 60 minutes

Lou the Vet Nurse takes over the RCVS Knowledge Facebook site for a discussion about clinical audit, how to get started in practice, how to keep engaged and getting help along the way (recorded 5th November 2019).

CPD:12 minutes

This award-winning case example shows how Angela Rayner, CVS PLC, completed audits into the recording of methadone and ketamine which resulted in improvements within the practice group.

CPD: 10 minutes

When the dispensing protocol was not being followed, Charlotte Hartley REVN performed a process audit and changed protocols to improve compliance and help avoid dispensing errors.

CPD: 15 minutes

This case example shows the national audit undertaken on clinical incidents throughout PDSA. By identifying where incidents were reported, the organisation could identify where they needed to focus their efforts on to make changes and create improvements.

CPD: 10 minutes

This case example shows how Kay Lockwood, from Riversbrook Veterinary Group, performed an audit to measure and monitor antibiotic use during dental extractions.

CPD: 15 minutes

This case example shows how one practice implemented a peripheral catheter care checklist and monitored its use and effectiveness through clinical audit.

CPD: 20 minutes

Vets Now Referrals Glasgow was highly commended for its clinical audit which assessed adherence to WHO handwashing guidelines.

CPD: 10 minutes

This case example shows how Gillivervet Equine Practice performed a process audit on the completion of dental charts after dental examinations.

CPD: 15 minutes

This case example shows how Vale Vets performed a hygiene audit through self-assessment to maintain a just culture and to identify any at-risk areas and further training required.

CPD: 15 minutes

This case example shows how the team at The Laurels initiated a clinical audit to monitor hand hygiene and compliance to uniform protocols within the practice.

CPD: 15 minutes

This award-winning case example shows how Plymouth Veterinary Group created guidelines for performing cytology on patients presenting with ear pathology, utilising the whole teams’ skillset to improve the patient journey for a common and often persistent presentation.

CPD: 5 minutes

This case example shows the initial audit of equine practice and its postoperative equine castration complications.

CPD: 15 minutes

This award-winning case example shows how Louise Northway completed an audit to look for trends and complications that could be addressed for improvements to patient care.

CPD: 15 minutes

This award-winning case example shows how the Vets Now Macclesfield team conducted quarterly audits to improve general anaesthetic monitoring in an emergency setting. As a result, the practice suffered zero patient deaths or significant events related to anaesthesia or sedation.

CPD: 20 minutes

This case example shows the national process audit undertaken after implementing a national pain protocol at PDSA. By identifying which areas had successfully implemented the change, assistance could be provided to those that required further support.

CPD: 20 minutes

This case example shows the national audit undertaken on cruciate surgical outcomes at PDSA. By auditing patient outcomes, PDSA could identify whether the current surgical technique offered was suitable, and implement a simple but effective technique to reduce the number of patients lost-to-follow-up.

CPD: 10 minutes

This case example shows how Vale Vets performed a post-operative complication audit on neutered cats and dogs to identify where any improvements were required.