Clinical audit support from NICE

NICE is developing a new tool to help health and social care organisations audit the improvements they are making to their services as part of a redesign of the audit support NICE provides.  The package of support is in its final stages of development and the first tool will be available this summer.  NICE will continue to provide baseline assessment tools for guidelines and, where identified, audit tools for interventional procedures. Existing clinical audit tools will be available on the NICE website and will only be removed should an update to guidance make them incompatible.  NICE is also developing a facility to allow organisations to publish their own audit results on the NICE website.