National Audit Group

Dr Vanessa Apea, Chair
Ms Lucie Ralph, Audit Co-Ordinator

BASHH Regional Audit Chairs

Anglia: Helen Pollitt

Cheshire & Mersey: Kirsten Michie

Essex: Malaki Ramogi

North Thames: Vanessa Apea

Northern: Rachael Viney

Northern Ireland: Emma Mccarty

North-West: Dornubari Lebari

Oxford: Nisha Pal

Scotland: Sally Wielding

South-East Thames: Soe Aung

South-West: Sophia Davies

South-West Thames: Ceri Slater

Trent: Rasha Omer

Wales: Sian Warren

Wessex: Alison Blume

West Midlands: Lisa Goodall

Yorkshire: Natasha Astill

Objectives
National audits of clinical practice in sexual health/genitourinary medicine clinics against the BASHH Clinical Effectiveness Group (CEG) National Guidelines
A forum to discuss national and regional audit programmes
Response to requests for national audits by the British Association of Sexual Health and HIV
Specification of key auditable outcomes for the common genitourinary conditions, using the clinical guidelines of the CEG as the standard of care

National audit of management of Mycoplasma genitalium infection completed
BASHH Board approval for the renewal of the clinical audit coordinator role following the planned retirement of the current coordinator at the end of 2022
Recruitment of new audit coordinator
Liaison with Clinical Effectiveness Group and reviewing and advising on auditable outcomes for the management of ano-genital warts
Ongoing liaison with the UK Health Security Agency and National Chlamydia Screening Programme
Ongoing liaison with the LUSTRUM project regarding piloting of proposed new partner notification audit measures

BASHH national clinical audit 2024 of first-time sexual health service attendees who do not have an HIV test: information on how to participate

2022 National audit of Mycoplasma genitalium (Mgen)

2021 National audit of HIV Post-Exposure Prophylaxis (PEP) pathways

2020 2020 National Audit of Gonorrhoea Management

2019 National Audit of Timelines to be Seen, Test Results and Treatment

2018 HIV partner notification (re-audit)

2017 Syphilis Management

2016 STI/HIV screening and risk assessment

2015 People under 16 attending sexual health services - Link Two

2014 Genital Herpes Management

2013 HIV partner notification

2012 Asymptomatic screening in genitourinary medicine clinics - Link Two

2011 Key Performance Indicators in the BASHH MedFASH Standards for the Management of Sexually Transmitted Infections

2010 Sexual History Taking (re-audit)

2009 Asymptomatic Screening

2008 Sexual History Taking

2007 Chlamydia

2006 Sexual Health of People With HIV

2005 Offering of HIV antibody testing to men who have sex with men

2004 Early Syphilis

2003 Gonorrhoea

Presentation of management of Mycoplasma genitalium audit findings and overview of quality improvement processes at 2023 BASHH conference
Dissemination of individualised reports from the management of Mycoplasma genitalium audit to participating services

National audit of HIV testing in sexual health services (clinic attenders not tested for HIV)
originally planned for 2023 but postponed to February 2024 due to delayed recruitment of audit co-ordinator
Ongoing work to map of key topics for audit based on the HIV Action Plan, BASHH standards, Sexual Health Strategy and PrEP Monitoring and Evaluation Framework, as well as BASHH guidelines

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