National Screening ServiceBowelScreen: the National Bowel Screening Programme2024-04-162024-04-162020-10-20http://hdl.handle.net/10147/641435In 2019, the Health Service Executive (HSE) established two Expert Reference Groups: one for BreastCheck and one for both CervicalCheck and BowelScreen. These groups were asked to: “define the future audit processes and review guidance for interval cancers in the National Screening Service based on international evidence and best practice.” (Appendix 1) The Expert Reference Groups and their respective Working Groups considered the current review practices and the patient information and consent processes, agreed the principles relating to clinical audits, and conducted two projects to determine international practices in regard to the audit of interval cancers: an international literature review, and a survey of practices in established national or regional cancer screening programmes which serve a population equal to or larger than Ireland’s. Clinical audit is a clinically-led quality improvement process that seeks to improve patient care and outcomes through systematic review of care against explicit criteria, and acting to improve care when standards are not met. The process involves the selection of aspects of the structure, processes and outcomes of care which are then systematically evaluated against explicit criteria. If required, improvements should be implemented at an individual, team or organisation level and then the care re-evaluated to confirm improvements.enAttribution 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/BOWEL CANCERSCREENINGQUALITY ASSURANCEReport