Clinical Audit Awareness Week 2026 - Patient Safety: Using Data and Audit to Reduce Harm

This online session will look at the essential role of robust data and learning from audit in helping identify risks, prevent harm, and build safer systems of care.

Drawing on practical examples, the session will explore how data from audits and registries can be used to detect safety signals, understand where harm is occurring, and support action to reduce risk and improve patient safety.

This session includes:

• Welcome from the Chair: Dr Jacqueline Andrews, Executive Medical Director, Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust and HQIP Trustee
• Using data for safety – A perspective from the Patient Safety Commissioner: Professor Henrietta Hughes OBE, Patient Safety Commissioner
• The role of the National Joint Registry in patient safety: Chris Boulton, Director of Operations, National Joint Registry
• Using national maternity data to drive patient safety improvement: Faith Sheils, Director of Midwifery, Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust
• From incident to improvement: using Epilepsy12 data to commission a safer first seizure pathway: Dr Colin Dunkley, Consultant Paediatrician, Sherwood Forest Hospitals, Epillepsy12 Clinical Lead
• Update from Patient Safety Learning: Clare Wade, Director, Patient Safety Learning

Register here.