Audit Opportunities

  • (0-19 Service) UNICEF BFI Mother Audits: Audit of Mother’s experiences of care, against UNICEF/BFI Standards.
    Start: 01/08/2024 | End: 31/08/2025
    Supervisor: Jayne Monaghan
  • (0-19 Service) UNICEF BFI Staff Audit: Audit of 0-19 staff knowledge & skills, against UNICEF/BFI Standards.
    Start: 01/08/2024 | End: 31/08/2025
    Supervisor: Jayne Monaghan
  • Documentation audit by Appointment Type - 2024
    Start: 01/01/2024 | End: 31/10/2025
    Supervisor: Alyson Grayson
  • NCEPOD Blood Sodium
    Start: 01/04/2024 | End: 31/03/2026
    Supervisor: Timothy Fforde
  • Evaluating the impact of implementing guideline-based placenta-specific histology request cards on clinical information received and service efficiency
    Start: 01/01/2025 | End: 31/03/2026
    Supervisor: Megan Taylor
  • Major Haemorrhage audit National Comparative Audit of Blood Transfusion
    Start: 01/04/2025 | End: 31/03/2026
    Supervisor: Timothy Fforde
  • National Comparative Audit: Major Haemorrhage Audit
    Start: 21/06/2025 | End: 22/09/2025
    Supervisor: Timothy Fforde
  • A retrospective observational study of resuscitation decision making before cardiac arrest in a district departmental hospital
    Start: 10/02/2025 | End: 20/08/2025
    Supervisor: George Carlisle
  • Learning Disability Mortality Review Programme (LeDeR) *CONTINUOUS NATIONAL AUDIT*
    Start: 01/04/2024 | End: 31/03/2026
    Supervisor: Linda Ashworth
  • Round 5/6: National Audit of Care at the End of Life (NACEL) 2024 - 2026
    Start: 01/02/2024 | End: 31/03/2026
    Supervisor: Johanne Wilks
  • NCEPOD : End of life
    Start: 01/07/2023 | End: 31/03/2026
    Supervisor: Laura Edwards
  • NCEPOD - Acute Illness in people with a Learning Disability
    Start: 01/05/2025 | End: 01/06/2026
    Supervisor: Michelle Parry
  • National Audit of Dementia (NAD)
    Start: 01/04/2025 | End: 31/03/2026
    Supervisor: David Neilson
  • NEWS scoring in Older Adults - Retrospective Analysis
    Start: 28/01/2025 | End: 28/08/2025
    Supervisor: Janahan Ragunathan
  • NCEPOD Rehabilitation following critical illness
    Start: 25/06/2024 | End: 31/03/2026
    Supervisor: Michelle Parry
  • NCEPOD Critically ill Child
    Start: 12/03/2025 | End: 31/03/2026
    Supervisor: Michelle Parry
  • Case Mix Programme (CMP) 2025/26
    Start: 01/04/2025 | End: 31/03/2026
    Supervisor: Madhu Shankar Balasubramaniam
  • National Ovarian Cancer Audit (NOCA)
    Start: 01/04/2025 | End: 31/03/2026
    Supervisor: Jonathan Riley
  • Colposcopy MDT Case Discussion Audit
    Start: 01/04/2025 | End: 31/03/2026
    Supervisor: Nichola Yearsley
  • Annual Disclosure Audit (Cervical Screening & Colposcopy / Invasive Cervical Cancer)
    Start: 01/04/2025 | End: 31/03/2026
    Supervisor: Nichola Yearsley
  • 2-Yearly Invasive Cervical Cancer Audit
    Start: 01/04/2025 | End: 31/03/2027
    Supervisor: Nichola Yearsley
  • Management of glandular abnormalities in colposcopy - 2-yearly Audit
    Start: 01/04/2025 | End: 31/03/2027
    Supervisor: Nichola Yearsley
  • Colposcopy treatment standards - 2-yearly Audit
    Start: 01/04/2025 | End: 31/03/2027
    Supervisor: Nichola Yearsley
  • Colposcopy diagnostic standards - 2-yearly Audit
    Start: 01/04/2025 | End: 31/03/2027
    Supervisor: Nichola Yearsley
  • Colposcopy See & Treat management & outcome - 2-yearly Audit
    Start: 01/04/2025 | End: 31/03/2027
    Supervisor: Nichola Yearsley
  • Cervical biopsy reporting minimum dataset – histopathology 2-yearly Audit
    Start: 01/04/2025 | End: 31/03/2027
    Supervisor: Prabha Kushwaha
  • Audit of cervical biopsy levels – histopathology 2-Yearly Audit
    Start: 01/04/2025 | End: 31/03/2027
    Supervisor: Prabha Kushwaha
  • Outcome of Clinically Indicated Referrals to Colposcopy Department.
    Start: 01/04/2025 | End: 31/03/2027
    Supervisor: Nahid Siraj
  • Annual Audit: Readmission following Gynaecology procedure - CQC
    Start: 25/03/2025 | End: 01/08/2025
    Supervisor: Preeti Krishna
  • An audit of the assessment and diagnosis of endometriosis in secondary care (NICE NG73)
    Start: 21/05/2025 | End: 17/07/2025
    Supervisor: Rucira Ooi
  • National Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma Audit (NNHLA)
    Start: 01/04/2025 | End: 31/03/2026
    Supervisor: Heyam Hashim
  • Outcome Audit
    Start: 16/10/2019 | End: 31/12/2029
    Supervisor: Leesa Willett
  • Health Records Box Audit
    Start: 01/07/2020 | End: 31/12/2030
    Supervisor: Leesa Willett
  • National Audit of Seizures and Epilepsies in Children and Young People (Epilepsy12)
    Start: 01/04/2025 | End: 31/03/2026
    Supervisor: Daniel Hindley
  • National Child Mortality Database Programme (NCMDP)
    Start: 01/04/2025 | End: 31/03/2026
    Supervisor: Daniel Hindley
  • National Paediatric Diabetes Audit (NPDA)
    Start: 01/04/2025 | End: 31/03/2026
    Supervisor: James Mckinnon
  • Paediatric Diabetes Non-Attendance Audit
    Start: 02/06/2025 | End: 31/07/2025
    Supervisor: Katie Ramsden
  • National Perinatal Mortality Review Tool (PMRT)
    Start: 01/04/2025 | End: 31/03/2026
    Supervisor: Samantha Whelan
  • National Pregnancy in Diabetes Audit (NPID)
    Start: 01/04/2024 | End: 31/05/2026
    Supervisor: Nichola Baxendale
  • National Maternity and Perinatal Audit (NMPA)
    Start: 01/04/2025 | End: 31/05/2026
    Supervisor: Nadia Ali-Ross
  • MBRRACE-UK - Maternal, Newborn and Infant Clinical Outcome Review Programme
    Start: 01/04/2025 | End: 31/05/2026
    Supervisor: Samantha Whelan
  • Fetal medicine care when fetal abnormality detected
    Start: 01/06/2023 | End: 31/10/2025
    Supervisor: Joanne Hepworth
  • Placental Abruption
    Start: 01/03/2024 | End: 31/07/2025
    Supervisor: Preeti Krishna
  • Re-Audit: Midwifery Workforce
    Start: 01/04/2024 | End: 31/07/2025
    Supervisor: Becca Brannan
  • Re-Audit: RCOG Consultant attendance at clinical scenarios
    Start: 01/04/2024 | End: 31/07/2025
    Supervisor: Lynda Moorcroft
  • Re-Audit: Vitamin D Audit.
    Start: 01/03/2024 | End: 31/07/2025
    Supervisor: Lauren Goddard
  • Re-Audit: Fetal Growth Restriction (Quarterly Audit FGR & SGA Detection Rates, including the percentage of babies born <3rd centile >37+6 weeks’ gestation)
    Start: 01/04/2024 | End: 31/07/2025
    Supervisor: Lauren Goddard
  • Aspirin Risk Assessment Audit [Quarterly audit, to commence re-auditing in March 2025 for CNST Year 6]
    Start: 31/03/2025 | End: 31/03/2026
    Supervisor: Lauren Goddard
  • Re-Audit of induction of labour (IOL) for Reduced Fetal Movements (RFM) alone. -Split into 2 categories - <39 weeks gestation - >39 weeks gestation
    Start: 16/07/2024 | End: 31/08/2025
    Supervisor: Katrina Bradley
  • Re-Audit: Obstetric Cholestasis
    Start: 01/01/2025 | End: 31/10/2025
    Supervisor: Ilze Zommere
  • Annual Audit: Latent Phase of labour
    Start: 01/07/2025 | End: 31/08/2025
    Supervisor: Becca Brannan
  • Rolling Audit: Delay in transfer to Central Delivery Suite following Induction of Labour for PROM on M2
    Start: 01/11/2025 | End: 31/12/2025
    Supervisor: Becca Brannan
  • Aspirin Risk Assessment Re-Audit
    Start: 07/01/2025 | End: 31/05/2026
    Supervisor: Lauren Goddard
  • Re-Audit: Mortality to discharge data for those born <32 weeks gestation
    Start: 01/01/2025 | End: 31/05/2026
    Supervisor: Lauren Goddard
  • Re-Audit of MSU compliance at booking
    Start: 07/01/2025 | End: 31/05/2026
    Supervisor: Lauren Goddard
  • Re-Audit: Pre term optimisation audit (VTV, counselling, caffeine)
    Start: 01/01/2025 | End: 31/05/2026
    Supervisor: Lauren Goddard
  • Management of Postpartum Haemorrhage replacing Audit 4648
    Start: 01/08/2024 | End: 31/08/2025
    Supervisor: Becca Brannan
  • MOEWS – AN ward
    Start: 11/07/2024 | End: 30/09/2025
    Supervisor: Elizabeth Dean
  • Maternity Triage Use of BSOTS tool and completion of Modified Obstetric Early warning score (MEOWS) and Sepsis Screening Tool.
    Start: 01/12/2024 | End: 31/12/2025
    Supervisor: Becca Brannan
  • Re-Audit: Reduced fetal movements
    Start: 29/04/2025 | End: 30/11/2025
    Supervisor: Katrina Bradley
  • Ante Natal Fetal Monitoring Re-Audit
    Start: 31/05/2025 | End: 31/08/2025
    Supervisor: Lisa Kilshaw
  • Re-Audit: Women with complex pregnancy including maternal medicine pathways
    Start: 01/03/2025 | End: 31/05/2026
    Supervisor: Becca Brannan
  • Consultant attendance at clinical scenarios
    Start: 01/04/2025 | End: 31/05/2026
    Supervisor: Lynda Moorcroft
  • Fetal monitoring: Fresh Eyes Audit
    Start: 01/04/2025 | End: 31/05/2026
    Supervisor: Lisa Kilshaw
  • Auscultation Audit: appropriateness of risk assessment, frequency, timing, duration of auscultation, escalation & Appropriateness of management of any abnormalities.
    Start: 01/04/2025 | End: 31/05/2026
    Supervisor: Lisa Kilshaw
  • Pathway into Transitional Care
    Start: 01/04/2025 | End: 31/05/2026
    Supervisor: Hayley Fletcher
  • Midwifery Workforce 2025 Audit
    Start: 01/04/2025 | End: 31/05/2026
    Supervisor: Emma Jones
  • Smoking – Co at booking and 36 weeks gestation
    Start: 01/04/2025 | End: 31/05/2026
    Supervisor: Alexa Hunt
  • Smoking – Saving Babies Lives Audit A – 2025 Audit
    Start: 01/04/2025 | End: 31/05/2026
    Supervisor: Alexa Hunt
  • Smoking – Saving Babies Lives Audit B – 2025 Audit
    Start: 01/04/2025 | End: 31/05/2026
    Supervisor: Alexa Hunt
  • Training Audit: Smoking Training report, Fetal monitoring training report & SFH training report
    Start: 01/04/2025 | End: 31/05/2026
    Supervisor: Alexa Hunt
  • FGR identified and recorded at booking –risk assessment & assessment that those that are high risk for FGR are having a UTAD undertaken at anomaly scan.
    Start: 01/04/2025 | End: 31/05/2026
    Supervisor: Lauren Goddard
  • FGR -Percentage of pregnancies where a Small for Gestational Age (SGA) & FGR fetus is antenatally detected <3rd centile babies not detected antenatally and born after 38+0 weeks
    Start: 01/04/2025 | End: 31/05/2026
    Supervisor: Lauren Goddard
  • Symphysis Fundal height measurement
    Start: 01/04/2025 | End: 31/05/2026
    Supervisor: Lauren Goddard
  • Percentage of women booked who are recommended vitamin D supplementation at booking
    Start: 01/04/2025 | End: 31/05/2026
    Supervisor: Lauren Goddard
  • Risk assessment and management of growth disorders in multiple pregnancy guideline.
    Start: 01/08/2025 | End: 31/05/2026
    Supervisor: Becca Brannan
  • Reduced fetal movements
    Start: 01/04/2025 | End: 31/05/2026
    Supervisor: Katrina Bradley
  • a.Rate of induction of labour when RFM is the only Indication before 39+0 weeks’ gestation. b.Scan wait times for reduced fetal movements
    Start: 01/04/2025 | End: 31/03/2026
    Supervisor: Katrina Bradley
  • Pre term optimisation audit (VTV, counselling, caffeine)
    Start: 01/04/2025 | End: 31/05/2026
    Supervisor: Lauren Goddard
  • Pre term GBS prophylaxis <37 weeks
    Start: 01/04/2025 | End: 31/05/2026
    Supervisor: Lauren Goddard
  • Percentage of women at booking completed risk assessment for pre term birth Audit
    Start: 01/04/2025 | End: 31/05/2026
    Supervisor: Lauren Goddard
  • Diabetes in pregnancy local CNST audit
    Start: 01/04/2025 | End: 31/05/2026
    Supervisor: Michelle John
  • Avoidable repeat NBBS
    Start: 20/06/2025 | End: 31/10/2025
    Supervisor: Cecilia Hopkins
  • Unicef BFI Mother breast feeding knowledge Audits
    Start: 01/04/2025 | End: 31/05/2026
    Supervisor: Nathalie Smith
  • Unicef BFI Mother artificial feeding knowledge Audits
    Start: 01/04/2025 | End: 31/05/2026
    Supervisor: Nathalie Smith
  • BFI – supplementary feed audit
    Start: 01/04/2025 | End: 31/05/2026
    Supervisor: Nathalie Smith
  • Safeguarding routine enquiries
    Start: 01/06/2025 | End: 31/05/2026
    Supervisor: Jayne Maguire
  • Female Genital Mutilation
    Start: 01/06/2025 | End: 31/05/2026
    Supervisor: Jayne Maguire
  • Domestic Abuse
    Start: 01/06/2025 | End: 31/05/2026
    Supervisor: Jayne Maguire
  • Safe sleep
    Start: 01/06/2025 | End: 31/05/2026
    Supervisor: Jayne Maguire
  • Cord prolapse
    Start: 01/06/2025 | End: 31/05/2026
    Supervisor: Uzma Batool
  • Use of Syntocinon
    Start: 01/07/2025 | End: 31/03/2026
    Supervisor: Katrina Bradley
  • Full set of screening tests are being undertaken following bereavements to include offering and performing venepuncture for HbA1c when the criteria is met.
    Start: 01/04/2025 | End: 31/05/2026
    Supervisor: Helen Moore
  • Neonatal Resuscitaire
    Start: 01/04/2025 | End: 31/03/2026
    Supervisor: Elizabeth Dean
  • Perinatal Mental Health (Re-Audit of 4824)
    Start: 01/04/2025 | End: 31/07/2025
    Supervisor: Frances Ireland
  • Use of Terbuterline
    Start: 01/07/2025 | End: 31/10/2025
    Supervisor: Katrina Bradley
  • Use of the BSOTS booklet for RFM undertaken in ANDU.
    Start: 01/07/2025 | End: 31/07/2025
    Supervisor: Amanda Rigby
  • PTB evaluation in women with low risk factors
    Start: 01/04/2025 | End: 31/08/2025
    Supervisor: Priti Wuppalapati
  • OASI Quarterly Audit 2025
    Start: 01/04/2025 | End: 31/03/2026
    Supervisor: Becca Brannan
  • Aquatherm Heated Mattress for infants within Postnatal care
    Start: 01/07/2025 | End: 31/05/2026
    Supervisor: Hayley Fletcher
  • Antenatal screening health inequality audit
    Start: 01/07/2025 | End: 31/05/2026
    Supervisor: Charlotte Mills
  • Re-Audit: Obstetric Medical Workforce
    Start: 01/04/2025 | End: 31/05/2026
    Supervisor: Judith Kundodyiwa
  • Re-Audit: Women with complex pregnancy including maternal medicine pathways
    Start: 01/07/2025 | End: 31/05/2026
    Supervisor: Becca Brannan
  • Daily ward round review on Ante natal ward
    Start: 01/07/2025 | End: 31/12/2025
    Supervisor: Fiona Jarvis
  • Documentation of neonatal urine
    Start: 01/07/2025 | End: 30/09/2025
    Supervisor: Nathalie Smith
  • National Neonatal Audit Programme (NNAP) - Neonatal Intensive and Special Care
    Start: 01/04/2025 | End: 31/03/2026
    Supervisor: Dinakar Seshadri
  • Outcomes for extremely preterm babies between 22 to 26 weeks in Bolton NICU
    Start: 09/05/2024 | End: 01/09/2025
    Supervisor: Alicia Pakenham
  • Management and outcomes of nano-preterms
    Start: 06/02/2025 | End: 31/08/2025
    Supervisor: Emma McDermott
  • Donated Expressed Breastmilk (DEBM) use on NICU - sub-audit of Nutrition in Infants at risk of BPD [ref 4631]
    Start: 27/03/2025 | End: 27/07/2025
    Supervisor: Hannah Spierson
  • Vitamin D Levels in neonates diagnosed with Metabolic Bone Disease
    Start: 08/06/2025 | End: 06/07/2025
    Supervisor: Grace Bradley
  • Hospital specialist palliative care team EPaCCS use and outcomes - QI project
    Start: 01/04/2025 | End: 31/03/2026
    Supervisor: Aileen Tart
  • Personalised Care Questionnaire
    Start: 01/01/2025 | End: 31/03/2026
    Supervisor: Louise Porritt
  • National Joint Registry (NJR) 2023
    Start: 01/01/2024 | End: 31/12/2025
    Supervisor: James Wilson
  • National Hip Fracture Database 2025 Falls and Fragility Fractures Audit programme (FFFAP)
    Start: 01/01/2025 | End: 31/12/2025
    Supervisor: Gemma Holland
  • National Audit of Inpatient Falls 2025 Falls and Fragility Fractures and Audit Programme (FFFAP)
    Start: 01/01/2025 | End: 31/12/2025
    Supervisor: Joy Redwood
  • National Early Inflammatory Arthritis Audit (NEIA) *CONTINUOUS NATIONAL AUDIT*
    Start: 01/04/2025 | End: 31/03/2026
    Supervisor: Rachel Wray
  • A service evaluation, to investigate the number of appropriate Temporal Artery biopsy referrals
    Start: 16/04/2025 | End: 30/09/2025
    Supervisor: Mikaash Halai
  • A service evaluation, to establish whether GP direct referral has impacted on referral to test time for USS TA.
    Start: 16/04/2025 | End: 24/09/2025
    Supervisor: Mikaash Halai
  • UK Parkinson's Audit - Transforming Care
    Start: 01/05/2022 | End: 31/03/2026
    Supervisor: Francesca Hall
  • To assess the improvement in patient clinical pathway and cost effectiveness of hand therapists directly listing for trigger finger release
    Start: 01/01/2024 | End: 01/08/2025
    Supervisor: Hannah Mulligan
  • Therapy management CMCJ arthroplasty's
    Start: 14/02/2025 | End: 25/07/2025
    Supervisor: Holly Newton
  • Functional and pain outcomes in CMCJ arthroplasty patients
    Start: 24/01/2025 | End: 27/08/2025
    Supervisor: Holly Newton
  • An audit to evaluate patient’s pain and stage of stenosing tenosynovitis following hand therapy
    Start: 22/04/2025 | End: 30/09/2025
    Supervisor: Holly Newton
  • Documentation Audit: Audit of Equality Impact Assessments (EIAs) across the organisation
    Start: 18/06/2025 | End: 31/12/2025
    Supervisor: Rahila Ahmed

Research Opportunities

Description: The UK-PBC (Primary Biliary Cholangitis) study is a national research initiative focusing on the autoimmune liver disease primary biliary cholangitis, aiming to understand its progression and improve treatment strategies

Role for Junior Doctor: Screening / Identifying patients

Contact: Mahesh.Bhalme@boltonft.nhs.uk

Description: The BCAN-RAY study is a UK research project assessing personalized breast cancer risk in women aged 30–39 to offer targeted screening and prevention strategies beyond the current NHS programme

Role for Junior Doctor: Screening / Identifying patients

Contact: Ricardo.PardoGarcia@boltonft.nhs.uk

Description: Refining and Optimising a behavioural intervention to Support Endocrine Therapy Adherence

Role for Junior Doctor: Screening / Identifying patients

Contact: Emma.Howarth@boltonft.nhs.uk

Description: The POLARiS study is an NHS-led trial evaluating treatments like sacral neuromodulation and transanal irrigation to improve quality of life for patients with Low Anterior Resection Syndrome after rectal cancer surgery

Role for Junior Doctor: Screening / Identifying patients

Contact: Ian.Farrell@boltonft.nhs.uk

Description: The ONCORE study is a UK-based clinical trial investigating the effectiveness of exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation in preventing chemotherapy-induced cardiotoxicity in women with early-stage breast cancer undergoing treatment with anthracyclines and/or anti-HER2 antibodies

Role for Junior Doctor: Screening / Identifying patients

Contact: Paul.Harris@boltonft.nhs.uk

Description: The IBD BioResource is a UK-wide research initiative aiming to accelerate the development of new treatments for Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis by collecting genetic, clinical, and lifestyle data from patients

Role for Junior Doctor: Screening, Recruitment, and Completing Medical Histories

Contact: Salil.Singh@boltonft.nhs.uk

Description: The TRICEPS study is an NHS-led clinical trial testing whether non-invasive Transcutaneous Vagus Nerve Stimulation combined with rehabilitation can improve arm recovery in stroke survivors with persistent weakness

Role for Junior Doctor: Possibly have neurologist double check the position of strokes and confirm eligibility

Contact: Susan.Bannister@boltonft.nhs.uk

Description: Comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) to sustain independence for older people living with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) and frailty: The CHART Trial

Role for Junior Doctor: Screening / Identifying patients & recruiting

Contact: Nikesh.Patel@boltonft.nhs.uk

Description: The IMID trial is an NHS research initiative focused on immune-mediated inflammatory diseases, primarily within the specialties of rheumatology and immunology

Role for Junior Doctor: Screening / Identifying patients

Contact: Anindita.Paul@boltonft.nhs.uk

Description: Biologics in Rheumatoid Arthritis Genetics and Genomics Study Syndicate

Role for Junior Doctor: Screening / Identifying patients

Contact: Anindita.Paul@boltonft.nhs.uk