scholarly journals The Royal College of Psychiatrists: Preliminary report on medical audit

1989 ◽  
Vol 13 (10) ◽  
pp. 577-580 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Royal College ◽  
Preliminary Report ◽  
Medical Audit

scholarly journals Medical audit among Scottish child psychiatrists

1992 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. 273-274
Author(s):  
H. G. Morton ◽  
R. J. R. McCabe ◽  
W. Parry-Jones ◽  
J. Pickett
Keyword(s):  
Child Psychiatry ◽  
Royal College ◽  
Performance Indicators ◽  
Working Group ◽  
Preliminary Report ◽  
Clinical Audit ◽  
Child And Adolescent ◽  
Medical Audit ◽  
Considerable Variability ◽  
And Performance

Working for Patients (DOH, 1989) has provided considerable impetus to the development of medical audit. The Royal College of Psychiatrists (1989) Preliminary Report on Medical Audit defined and distinguished between clinical audit, peer review and performance indicators, and referred to some of the particular problems affecting the development of audit in psychiatric practice. There are special concerns for child and adolescent psychiatrists developing medical audit programmes because of the wide diversity of child and adolescent practice and the considerable variability of resources in the subspecialty. Nicol (1989) has described the initial concern of the National Child Psychiatry Section's Working Group on audit with the Korner Report (HMSO, 1982) and the proposals on performance indicators outlined by the DHSS in 1987.

scholarly journals Audit in two acute psychiatric units

1991 ◽  
Vol 15 (6) ◽  
pp. 351-352 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Dutta ◽  
R. R. Parker ◽  
T. W. Fleet
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Medical Care ◽  
Royal College ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Preliminary Report ◽  
Medical Audit ◽  
Use Of Resources ◽  
Psychiatric Units ◽  
Quality Of Medical Care

The Royal College of Psychiatrists (1989) has recently produced its own preliminary report on medical audit. It defines medical audit as: “The systematic, critical analysis of the quality of medical care, including the procedures used for diagnosis and treatment, the use of resources and the resulting outcome and quality of life for the patients.” This definition is in essence similar to that of the Royal College of Physicians.

Providing a community mental handicap service

1992 ◽  
Vol 16 (01) ◽  
pp. 20-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. J. Hall ◽  
L. F. Pieri
Keyword(s):  
Royal College ◽  
Consumer Satisfaction ◽  
Long Term Care ◽  
Community Care ◽  
Medical Audit ◽  
Mentally Handicapped ◽  
Term Care ◽  
Mental Handicap

It is acknowledged that assessing ‘consumer satisfaction’ is an important part of medical audit (The Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1991). For the mentally handicapped, it can be argued that ‘carer satisfaction’ is particularly relevant. This is particularly so at a time when the ‘community’ is being advocated as the preferred setting for the long-term care of the mentally handicapped, the families and neighbours of the handicapped being the main providers of this ‘community care’ (Griffiths, 1988).

scholarly journals Practical experience from a regional secure unit

1992 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 84-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrian James
Keyword(s):  
Royal College ◽  
Performance Indicators ◽  
Clinical Audit ◽  
Essential Element ◽  
Working Party ◽  
Practical Experience ◽  
Medical Audit ◽  
Psychiatric Setting ◽  
Secure Unit ◽  
Regular Review

The Royal College of Psychiatrists' Working Party on Medical Audit has emphasised the multidisciplinary nature of patient care in psychiatry (Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1989). Much has been published on individual audit topics and on definitions of the various aspects of audit such as peer review, performance indicators and quality assurance. The essential element of audit is its systematic nature and little has been written concerning an overall structure for clinical audit within an individual psychiatric setting. It is not sufficient to start with ‘a simple project with minimum of cost in terms of both time and money expended’, as recommended by the Royal College of Psychiatrists' Working Party. What is needed is an overall structure for regular review so that the systematic nature of the process is not lost and that recommendations from audit meetings are reviewed regularly for their usefulness and level of implementation.

scholarly journals Role of regional audit facilitators in psychiatry

1992 ◽  
Vol 16 (12) ◽  
pp. 762-763
Author(s):  
Kedar N. Dwivedi
Keyword(s):  
Medical Education ◽  
Royal College ◽  
Postgraduate Medical Education ◽  
Market Forces ◽  
Medical Audit ◽  
Standing Committee

At most conferences on medical audit we are reminded that medical audit is centuries old. What is new is the push for medical audit as a formal activity in which each clinician must take part. This push came from Mrs Thatcher's NHS review in 1989, invoking the spirit of market forces in the NHS. Whether this spirit is that of a goddess or demon, it is perhaps too early to know. As many of the Royal Colleges (Hoffenberg, 1989; Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1989; Royal College of Surgeons of England, 1989) and the Standing Committee on Postgraduate Medical Education (1989) produced their guidelines, the push to make medical audit a formal activity in which each doctor should take part became reality in 1989.

scholarly journals Multidisciplinary audit in child and adolescent psychiatry

1992 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 214-215 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Leahy ◽  
M. S. Thambirajah ◽  
Linda M. Winkley
Keyword(s):  
Child Psychiatry ◽  
Royal College ◽  
Adolescent Psychiatry ◽  
Multidisciplinary Team ◽  
Clinical Audit ◽  
Child And Adolescent ◽  
Child And Adolescent Psychiatry ◽  
Team Work ◽  
Medical Audit

Recent guidelines recommend that where appropriate, procedures for the development of audit in medicine and professions allied to medicine can be replaced by comprehensive multidisciplinary audit of services. The Royal College of Psychiatrists (1990) suggests that clinical audit, involving the work of other staff in the multidisciplinary team, is preferable to purely medical audit. Given the importance of team work in child psychiatry, it seems appropriate to establish a system of audit which enables all disciplines to be involved.

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