The facilitation of multiprofessional clinical audit in primary health care teams–from audit to quality assurance

Abstract

In the National Health Service clinical audit is gradually evolving into a broader quality assurance programme for all health professionals. However, members of primary health care teams need support if they are to collaborate effectively to develop quality assurance. In this paper a number of relevant lessons are discussed which have been highlighted by the experiences of two studies of facilitation of multiprofessional clinical audit in primary health care.

Key Words:

• Clinical audit
• primary health care team
• facilitation
• quality assurance
• TQM
• team building