Clinical Audit or Peer Review? Your choice...
Peer Review
Peer Review is a good place to start if you are new to formal Clinical Governance. You form a group of between 4 and 8, with colleagues from other
practices, and compare and contrast your working methods in a series of formal meetings. The meetings are preferably Practice-based,
but may be held in more sociable surroundings.
One of the group will act as the convenor, and will be responsible for all the organisation and agenda setting for the group.
Individual Clinical Audit
If you already have experience of Peer Review and would like a change, or you are unable to join a PR group (e.g. due to geographical difficulties),
an Individual Clinical Audit will help you meet your Clinical Governance requirements.
You will select an area of your Practice which you suspect needs
improvement, measure your current performance,
then (if necessary) implement changes to the way you work in order to meet the standard you have set yourself.
Popular topics for Audit include, for example:
 Radiographic Quality
History Recording
Patient Waiting Times
Handling of Emergency Appointments.
Collaborative Clinical Audit
Organising a Collaborative Audit is not for the faint hearted, and we would recomment that the organiser has experience of both Peer Review
and Individual Audit before embarking on a Collaborative Audit.
A Collaborative Audit involves a number of dentists from a Practice or group of Practices, and it allows effective and consistent improvements to be made on a broad base. Feedback sessions between all the dentists produce a variety of suggestions which can be considered and implemented.
Next: Choose
Peer Review
or Clinical Audit
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