Practice placement partners

The ARC eAudit system was developed in conjunction with, and to build on the success of, the ARC PEP system. The primary objective being to streamline the practice area auditing process, in line with statutory requirements.

The system offers an intuitive and logical way of navigating the user through the complex process of ensuring that each practice area is successfully audited. It also deals with statutory standards (Nursing and Midwifery Council / NHS England), providing the necessary linkages between standards and placement evaluations, so as to make available any supporting evidence. All audit standard criteria have been aligned to the NHS England Safe Learning Environment Charter priorities (SLEC). This alignment work can be viewed here. It is also capable of recording and monitoring any associated action plans, giving the option of defining accountability i.e. placement area staff, trust managers, university staff, etc.

Finally, as part of the audit process the system allows the user to record the audited placement capacity.