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What is Quality Improvement Activity (QIA)?

What is Quality Improvement Activity (QIA)?


  • Clinical audit
  • Review of clinical outcomes
  • Case review or discussion
  • Audit and monitor the effectiveness of a teaching programme
  • Evaluate the impact and effectiveness of a piece of health policy or management practice
  • Participation in QI project
  • Implementation of action plan based on incidents/complaints, new SIGN guidance etc.

Review of your performance against local, regional or national benchmarking data where this is robust, attributable and validated. This could include morbidity and mortality statistics or complication rates.

This part of the appraisal gives a doctor the opportunity to reflect on improvements they have made to their practice as a result of any audits or quality improvement projects or discussions they were involved in.



This page was last updated on: 21/11/2024