Guidance

Detection and management of outliers in national clinical audits

National Clinical Audit Advisory Group (NCAAG) recommendations on detection and management of outliers identified through national clinical audits.

• From: Department of Health and Social Care
• Published: 31 January 2011

This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

Documents

Download Detection and management of outliers

PDF, 191 KB, 21 pages

This file may not be suitable for users of assistive technology.

Request an accessible format.

If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need a version of this document in a more accessible format, please email publications@dhsc.gov.uk. Please tell us what format you need. It will help us if you say what assistive technology you use.

Details

NCAAG, supported by the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP), has made recommendations, accepted by the Department of Health on the detection and management of outliers identified through national clinical audits.

The recommendations are now published as guidance and set out how potentially outlying performance can be identified and develops a framework for national clinical audits to use in engaging provider organisations.

The guidance also sets out the procedures to be followed should a national clinical audit identify an NHS organisation with apparently poor performance and details the actions needed, who should take them, and when.

Published 31 January 2011