The audit of practice learning environments in health and social care.
Audit Handbook

Why Audit?

The quality of practice based learning in health and social care is relevant for all staff, students, and people who access services. Learning is a life long process and is strongly shaped by experiences in practice. Organisations who provide such experiences and those who build them in to structured programmes need to be assured that practice based learning meets and exceeds the required standards.

The major mechanism to evidence the quality and enhancement of practice based learning is a process of audit.

Audit in this context is a measure of the capability of organisations to continue to support practice based learning. This assessment is required for performance and investment monitoring of the following organisations:

	professional regulatory bodies
	higher education institutions (universities)
	NHS Trusts
	social services
	independent and voluntary care providers
	local Workforce Development Confederations