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Audit at district and unit level

Introduction

192 Between 1984 and April 1991, the administration and management of the BRI and the BRHSC were the responsibility of the B&WDHA. Thereafter, they became the responsibility of the UBHT. This chapter gives an account of the evidence charting the development of audit at district level until April 1991, and thereafter at the UBHT. It makes reference, from time to time, to cardiac services and, more specifically, to paediatric cardiac surgical services, while seeking to focus on the more general picture.

193 The systems and practice of the audit of paediatric cardiac surgery have to be seen in the context of systems, practice and policy relating to audit at the level of the unit, which is the subject of this part of the chapter, and, indeed, against the national and regional background which was set out earlier in the chapter.

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