Transforming organisations through audit

Modernisation and change are essential components of health and social care if organisations want to have a strong and lasting presence. Quintessent has a range of skills and tools to help organisations transform and improve care through audit.

Quintessent can help by:

• Developing internal audit strategies and tools

The drive for improvement needs to be owned at all levels in organisations. Quintessent can work across organisations to help identify their starting points and their vision to determine and develop a transformational culture.

• Data analysis

We have experience in helping organisations use data to assess and improve performance

• Preparing for external audit and inspection

Quintessent's experience of being part of audit teams over a number of years means that we can help organisations prepare for external reviews by providing an independent view of where evidence needs to be strengthened. We also have experience of inspection across health and social care sectors, which is for example of particular benefit to organisations working with children and older people.

An increasing feature of external audit and inspection is the requirement for organisations to produce self assessments. This can be quite a challenge in terms of the resources it takes and also knowing what makes a good enough self assessment so that on site work is minimized and organizations know that they have presented themselves in the best possible light. Quintessent's experience in working with self-assessments as well as preparing organizations for external audit and inspection means that we can provide resources and expertise to ensure that self assessments become of benefit rather than a paper exercise and a chore.

• Value for money reviews

Organisations are being asked to demonstrate that they are achieving value for money. Quintessent can help by working with organisations to analyse and interpret performance against national benchmarking data and by developing a way of realising the benefits of new developments, for example workforce contracts and commissioning arrangements.

• Clinical Coding Audit (Payment by Results)

Quintessent has experience of clinical coding and Payment by Results and can help organisations develop audit tools and systems to support this.