3. Getting involved in core clinical functions in a
healthcare organisation is critical to our survival
4. • Academic teaching hospital
• Voluntary
• Part of St Vincent’s Healthcare
Group
• Group wide services –
Clinical Audit
Library & Information Services
8. Clinical Audit & SVHG
• History of it
• How the process works – role of auditors, role
of Clinical Audit Facilitator
• Role of the Clinical Audit Committee – review,
risk rating, audits are repeated, can become
part of the focus for quality improvement
initiatives in the organisation
9. Librarian involvement
• Clinical Audit Committee established 2003
• Librarian involvement straightaway.
• This was very fortunate for me!
12. We sit on a multidisciplinary
committee
• It is Group wide
• Members include: Group CEO, Chief Operating
Officer, Directors of Nursing, Consultants,
Senior Nursing and Allied Health Staff, NCHDs
etc.
13. We have a VOICE on this
Committee
• We are equal
• We read submissions and reports and are
invited to make comment
14. We are an integral part of the
Clinical Audit Process
• Two of your 5 a day thing here
15. • Proposed clinical audits must have carried out
a literature search (copy of form?)
• Clinical Audit Co-Ordinator sends prospective
auditors to us to confirm the
standards/guidelines or to find them in the
first place
16. We found extra work for ourselves
• We are able to identify audits that we can
help with
• We see where the clinical priorities/quality
improvement priorities are for the
organisation
23. Thank You
• All images with permission or with creative
commons licence
Niamh Lucey
Head of Library & Information Services
St Vincent’s University Hospital
Elm Park, Dublin 4
01 221 5032
n.lucey@svhg.ie / niamh.lucey@ucd.ie
Editor's Notes
What is clinical audit and how the function has developed in SVUH
Librarians’ involvement – the story
479 in patient beds, 2,500+ staff
A major teaching hospital for UCD Schools of Medicine, Nursing, Physiotherapy.
National Centre of Excellence for Cancer
National Pancreatic Surgical Centre
National Adult Cystic Fibrosis Centre
National Centre for Colorectal Disease
SVHG - The company is a not for profit, voluntary group of hospitals, has charitable status and its shareholders are the Sisters of Charity. Funded by HSE.
Accredited by JCI – first in 2010 and re-accrediated as an Academic Medical Centre in 2013 (first one in Europe – check!!)
Library established in July 1980.
Founding librarian, Hilda Beckett, was first professional librarian appointed to an Irish hospital library. Founding member of HSLG and the library become a model for other medical libraries in the country as they were established.
Mid 1990s – combined with nursing library from School and diagnostic imaging to become the multidisciplinary health science library it is today.
2001 – I joined as Head of Library & Information Services. 2006 – Anne Madden took up position of Assistant Librarian. 2008 – Gerry McManus joined us as Library Assistant.
Clinical Audit Study Day
Clinical Audit pack has information
