11.   The system should be medically led, with a local medical audit advisory committee chaired by a senior clinician.

12.   First, it is up to them to ensure that an effective system of medical audit is in place and agree its overall form with the profession locally.

13.   This would enable a tough general manager to ensure that medical audit did not become simply a talk shop or token activity.

14.   WFP offered two main mechanisms for improving quality, through the contracting process and through the systematic introduction of medical audit.

15.   However medical audit should be seen as part of a total approach to quality even if in reality it is often separated out.

16.   This was particularly apparent among the doctors, who rarely participated fully in TQM initiatives, pursuing their own system of medical audit.

17.   Are they against medical audit?

18.   Waiting list monitoring, outpatient department review, observation, visits erm nursing audit, medical audit, care review, qualifications check.

19.   The Department of Corporations conducts medical audits of all HMOs on a rotating basis.

20.   Mr Jones also called for an independent medical audit of all government AIDS clinics to monitor if patients were all being properly treated.