Two important documents from HQIP on audit and good governance

Clinical audit: a guide for NHS boards and partners
HQIP January 2015

• This updated guide places clinical audit within the broader context of quality improvement, touchingon all systems providing assurance to boards, stakeholders and commissioners.
• The resource provides guidance to those commissioning, delivering, and scrutinising the added value of clinical audit and other assurance systems.

Good Governance Handbook
HQIP January 2015

• This handbook aims to help existing and aspirant board-level clinicians, and CCG governing bodies, as well as those who support and challenge them, to understand and apply good governance in a rapidly-changing environment. 
• It can be read in parallel with the 2012 edition, the accompanying HQIP/GGI Clinical audit guide (ref1) and the NHS England sponsored set of governance tools prepared by Good Governance Institute for CCGs (ref2).

Ref1 Bullivant, J. et al (2015) Clinical audit: a guide for NHS boards and partners
Ref2 http://www.ccggovernance.org/tools.html