Clinical Quality Assurance Group (CQAG)

Meetings

Quarterly (3x virtual meetings and 1x face-to-face meeting at the RCOG)

The Clinical Quality Assurance Group reports to the Clinical Quality Board.

Develop and maintain an overall framework for the quality assurance of all clinical quality products, from topic proposal to final draft stage.
Quality assurance of all CQ products as follows:
Ensure that the products meet the RCOG quality standard, and that patient safety is paramount. This includes (but is not limited to) the following prescribed QA checks to be undertaken at peer review stage:
- Conflict/duplication
- Evidence based
- Risk and controversy
- Considerations for publication
- Patient support groups
- Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
- Communication
- Appropriate stakeholder input/collaboration
Provide sign off for all CQ products via the quality assurance process and authorisation from the Chair of CQAG, referring to CQB as necessary.
Where necessary, provide QA advice to other College Committees and work in other Directorates in relation to Clinical Quality
Ensure that relevant information is shared with the appropriate partners for input where necessary, such as specialist societies, Ethics Committee etc. The Group will have the right to co-opt appropriate advisers for specific pieces of work.
Provide assurance to CQ Board that the totality of the College’s CQ resource is integrated and coherent
Evaluate the CQAG process and systems at annually.

CQ Committee Representatives:

RCOG staff representation:

Co-opted membership:

On an as required basis, the Education and/or Global Health Directorates may be invited to CQAG to:

Please send all correspondence to the committee secretary.