Things to consider
Does your service meet the national/local guidelines you identified when setting up the audit? If not, where is it falling short? You may want to change your service or advice so that they meet the guidelines before performing the audit, and the audit will then provide a measure of how effectively you have implemented the change.
- Do the guidelines accurately translate across to your service?
- Have you used the most recent information?
- Have the local policies been updated since you set the audit?
- Display graphs/charts/tables in communal areas
- Team talks
- Cascade messages to other colleagues.
How will you communicate the audit results?
Audit suggestions
Prescription topics
• Provision of advice and information to patients on oral anticoagulants
• Sodium valproate in women of child-bearing age
• Gastroprotection in the elderly taking NSAIDs
• Inhaler technique in children
• Prescribed medicines and dietary advice
• Owings and out of stocks
• Waste medicines returned by patients (reasons)
OTC topics
• Ibuprofen for customers with asthma
• Providing OTC advice with a resultant no-sale of product
• Appropriate signposting to other healthcare providers
• Emergency hormonal contraception advice
• Continence advice.