Clinical Effectiveness and Evaluation Unit (CEEU)

The main aim of the Clinical Effectiveness and Evaluation Unit (CEEU) is to improve the quality of care delivered to patients in the National Health Service. The Unit does not undertake basic clinical research but concentrates on ways of ensuring that best practice and evidence-based approaches to care are widely disseminated and used for the benefit of patients.

Activities within the CEEU include:

• the production of national clinical guidelines
• the design of national comparative clinical audit tools to evaluate standards of organisation and delivery of clinical care
• the co-ordination of national comparative clinical audit projects
• the development of clinical outcome measures

Current Work Programme

•  CEEU work programme at a glance (PDF 142Kb)

Audits

• Acute Medicine
• The National Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Audit
• The National Audit of Continence Care
• The National Audit of Falls and Bone Health in Older People  
• The National Audit of Familial Hypercholesterolaemia
• The National Lung Cancer Audit
• The Stroke Programme
• The UK Inflammatory Bowel Disease Audit
• The National Audit of Services for people with Multiple Sclerosis
• External Audits

Completed Work

Audits

• Lung Cancer: A Core Data Set in collaboration the British Thoracic Society, Royal College of Radiologists and Society of Cardiothoracic Surgeons
• Action on Clinical Audit
• National Sentinel Audit of Stroke Rounds 1-3 (1998-2002)
• Evidence Based Prescribing for Older People (EBPOP)
• Stroke Outcomes Study – Institutionalisation rate after Stroke
• Multiple Sclerosis 360 Degree Audit
• Myocardial Infarction National Audit Project (MINAP)
• National Comparative Audit of Continence Care
• National sentinel Audit of Stroke – round 5&6

 Asthma Scoping Project (Word document, 3.1 mb)

Guidelines

• National Clinical Guidelines for Stroke in collaboration with the Intercollegiate Stroke Working Party

Quality improvement projects

• Closing the Gap: FallSafe
• Closing the Gap: Improving Lung Cancer Outcomes Project (ILOP)