Clinical Audits
Clinical Audits
What Is a Clinical Audit?
A quality improvement process to enhance patient care through professional reviews against explicit guidelines and healthcare standards.
Virtual Pharmacist provides evidence-based clinical audits that help GP practices meet CQC, QOF, ICB, and contractual requirements. These audits are completed remotely, and are designed to support practices in achieving excellent governance. The aim of this service is to improve patient safety, reduce clinical risk and drive measurable improvements in prescribing and condition management.
How Will This Help My Practice?
Our clinical team delivers audits against agreed standards, with a plan to review actions and repeat measurement at an appropriate interval.
Fully managed audit process
We manage the agreed audit work, from criteria and data collection to findings, recommended actions and a plan for repeat measurement.
Reduces clinical risks
Our clinical team reviews and audits high-impact medicines safety.
Provides support on audit results
Supporting practices with medication issues, incorrect setups, duplicate records, and more.
Prepares practices for CQC inspections
Providing evidence within reports under Safe and Well-Led domains.
Improves practice standards
Identifying areas of enhancement in patient care.
Clear governance demonstration
Audit reports can be uploaded directly to governance folders.
“The team is consistently reliable. Phones are always answered and emails come back the same day. It’s made a real difference to how we run our medication reviews.”
“Fast email replies and clinical input whenever we need it. They picked up our medicines work seamlessly and delivered from day one.”
“Excellent service from start to finish. Easy to reach, quick to reply, and they clearly know NHS workflows inside out. We couldn’t recommend the team more highly.”
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Frequently Asked Questions
What types of audits can you perform?
Our team can complete many structured and evidence-based audits to enhance your practice’s care outcomes and guideline alignment. We can complete clinical, safety, prescribing, coding, LTC, QOF, and medicines management audits.
Please contact us if you wish to discuss these auditing services.
