A single system helping you to embed good governance across your entire organisation.
Through real-time data and action tracking, AMaT helps teams to manage risks, clinical audits, assurance audits, QI, mortality and morbidity reviews, inspections, and NICE compliance.
Fifty organisations benefit from the flexibility and transparency that AMaT delivers.
One low price. No hidden costs. Unlimited projects. Unlimited users.
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Introducing AMaT
AMaT streamlines all of your auditing, compliance, and governance requirements into one simple, easy-to-use system.
- Activity dashboards & tables
- Step-by-step processes
- Unlimited users
- Sharing & collaboration
- Action planning & monitoring
- Alerts & notifications
- Scheduling & reporting
- User development forum
Clinical Teams and AMaT
AMaT allows clinical teams to register audits and improvement projects, associate related guidance, complete audits online, and manage action plans and scheduling.
A timely and efficient solution - and one that means more time spent at patient bedsides.
The key benefits of AMaT for Clinical Teams are:
- Simple management of all projects from national audits to junior doctor improvement projects
- Visibility of non-compliance and areas of focus for future improvement projects
- Easy management of reaudits
- Step-by-step guidance through the audit; all action plans and scheduling are managed
- PDF certificates and reports
Ward & Team Assurance
Ward and team-based assurance projects and audits are a daily part of clinical areas. But given the amount of time, labour, and paperwork involved, they can be challenging to implement effectively, and documentation can be easily duplicated or omitted.
The AMaT system allows for a structured approach to team-based audits, promoting a paper-free auditing environment for audits from infection prevention to medicines, increasing accuracy and improving the reporting of compliance with standards. Because it is web-based, AMaT centralises your data, generates notifications and reminders, and gives you real-time visibility into performance against benchmarks.
The key benefits of AMaT for Wards and Teams are:
- Simple creation of daily, monthly, quarterly and annual audits from hand hygiene and controlled drugs to CQC/inspectorate style visits
- Easy audit completion using smartphones or tablets: no more legibility issues, lost paperwork or rekeying data
- Add action plans, receive prompts and upload evidence of completion
- Dashboards clearly show audit activity, actions and progress with results displayed by organisation, speciality, site, team for ward and question level.
Guidance
AMaT ensures that all NICE guidance is updated and available for teams and individuals to access. Guidance can be associated with audits and projects, and AMaT manages statements of compliance and related action plans.
AMaT also allows users to add local and national guidelines, policies and many other types of guidance, providing a library to link to audit projects and monitor any gaps in auditing.
The key benefits of AMaT for Guidance are:
- Identify gaps in audit activity against guidance
- Easily manage statements of compliance, risks and actions plans
- Dashboards display progress and compliance status
- Allows teams to manage their guidance and evidence compliance
Inspections
AMaT enables organisations to manage all recommendations, information requests, actions and evidence before, during and after an inspection.
The key benefits of AMaT for Guidance are:
- Instant overview of the progress of all recommendations and actions
- Approval process for actions and evidence of completion
- Linking themes and regulations to recommendations
- Timely notifications and overdue alerts to ensure evidence and actions are completed
Mortality and Morbidity Review (MaMR)
MaMR allows clinical teams to record and review the care and treatment of patients in their organisation.
A robust tool for learning from deaths and complex cases.
The key benefits of MaMR for organisations are:
- Simple Medical Examiner, speciality and multi-disciplinary review processes
- Customisable review pro formas
- Create presentations and monitor peer review
- Record meetings and discussions
- Instant overview of quality of care scores and progress
- Record contact with family and carers
- Detail relevant incidents, complaints and PALS contact
- Link to risks and record learning points
- Create and monitor actions for learning and improvement
- Record complex morbidity cases for learning
Quality Improvement
AMaT enables users and teams to register and document their Quality Improvement projects from start to finish, following a recognised six stage process.
The key benefits of AMaT for Quality Improvement Teams are:
- Dashboard view of registrations and project progress by stage
- Ability to record tasks, projects risks, conversations and much more
- Customisation of available QI tools for each stage
- Data collection and results from multiple pro formas
Risk Teams
Recording and learning from risks is a crucial part of improving patient outcomes. Risk is the first part of AMaT's new Risk, Incidents, Complaints and Compliments module, which is designed to integrate with all your wider quality and governance data.
The AMaT system enables stakeholders within services and teams across an organisation to record controls, tasks, conversations, create effective treatment plans and link risks to themes, projects, and incidents within the system. AMaT centralises your data, generates notifications and reminders, and gives you real-time visibility into performance against benchmarks.
The key benefits of AMaT for Risk Teams are:
- Any ‘stakeholder’ can add a risk for their service
- Clear sight of risks and progress on dashboards which provide a daily update of updated risks
- Specific table for the corporate risk register
- Define and manage controls and treatment plans, ratings and response, tasks and conversations, and review dates and notes.
AMaT testimonials
I officially love AMaT! It's so easy to use, the functionality is fantastic and the support you guys provide with setting up and showcasing the system is phenomenal. Kelly Northcott-Orr, Head of Continuous Improvement, Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
AMaT has reduced the time taken to carry out an audit, and increased visibility of the process. Alison Leather, Clinical Audit & Effectiveness Manager, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals Trust
One of the nurses was having to type up CQC spot checks on paper, at night and over the weekend. Now this is done in AMaT, the data and reports are all there. It has saved her a huge amount of time. Deborah Kershaw, Head of Outcomes and Assurance, Stockport NHS Foundation Trust
The feedback we get is incredible. I have not had a single person use it and say they don't like it. Tracey Brailsford, Quality and Performance Lead, Derbyshire Community NHS Trust
The system is a game changer - it helps us to capture evidence in a measurable and manageable way. Natalie Morgan Thomas, Deputy Head of Clinical Audit and Lead Nurse for Clinical Effectiveness, Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
[AMaT has] this very democratic process for development. You don’t see that in other companies that provide similar services or software. Angela Ward, Clinical Audit and NICE manager, Oxford Health NHS Trust
There was nothing that did everything that we wanted it to do, for example ward audits and NICE compliance statements. AMaT is the solution that best meets our needs. Alison Leather, Clinical Audit & Effectiveness Manager, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals Trust
This is helping to ensure as a health board that we are cost effective, clinically effective and that we are providing the best opportunities and outcomes for patients. Natalie Morgan Thomas, Deputy Head of Clinical Audit and Lead Nurse for Clinical Effectiveness, Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
With AMaT, we have a system to capture what activity is taking place, one that gives people ownership and puts names against actions, and one that provides visibility of how projects are progressing and who has completed what. Deborah Kershaw, Head of Outcomes and Assurance, Stockport NHS Foundation Trust
What is AMaT ?
AMaT is a wide-ranging governance system that makes the data you collect work for you.
AMaT is designed to help you improve patient outcomes using clinical audit, quality improvement, compliance, and other governance processes. Independent assessment has shown that AMaT saves organisations more money than it costs.
AMaT was created with NHS teams to give you more control over data and actions, and to provide real-time insight and reporting for clinicians, wards, audit departments, and healthcare organisations.
AMaT is easy to implement, and simple to use. Data can be input and accessed in real time on a smartphone, tablet, laptop or desktop computer, giving healthcare staff increased flexibility and mobility, and more time to spend with patients.
I officially love AMaT!!! It's so easy to use, the functionality is fantastic, and the support you guys provide with setting up and showcasing the system is phenomenal! Hull University Teaching Hospitals
AMaT makes it easy to securely share information instantly. What's more, it's flexible enough to meet the specific needs of your department or organisation.
See results instantly
AMaT is designed around a dashboard system, which means your data can be seen at a glance in easy-to-understand graphical presentations.
Whether you need to share results organisation-wide, or tailor them for specific services, AMaT will help you to increase awareness and education throughout your organisation.
The dashboards provide clear visuals for your data, giving you real-time insight into how well you're performing, what is due, and where any potential risks might be. Using AMaT enables teams to react swiftly, implementing change and making improvements where necessary.
AMaT is intuitive and simple to use, but the technology behind it is powerful, allowing you to easily create and track hundreds of projects.
It works seamlessly with all elements of your processes: upload files from other locations; create pro formas and questionnaires; send instant email notifications to co-workers for their input; submit reports to managers, and generate completion certificates from your desktop or mobile device.
With the user, for the user
AMaT is an organisation-wide governance management system which has been developed with the user, for the user. Representatives from all licensed organisations form the AMaT Super User Group (SUG) which meets regularly to share best practice, discuss improvements, and new functionality.
These changes are implemented as part of a quarterly development cycle. They range in scope from small enhancements to entirely new modules such as Risk, Incidents, Quality Improvement, and Mortality and Morbidity Review. All new functionality is included in the licence fee at no extra cost, delivering thousands of pounds in potential savings.
AMaT case studies
AMaT supports
AMaT supports organisations throughout the onboarding process, including implementation, training, and support which continues into your everyday use.
The other ways in which we support teams are:
AMaT podcast
Celebrating the work done to improve patient safety using clinical audit, quality improvement, compliance, and other governance processes.
Featured podcast
AI in Clinical Audit: do the benefits outweigh the risks?
Description of podcast 'AI in Clinical Audit: do the benefits outweigh the risks?'
For episode 21 of The AMaT Podcast, Angela Ward, Dr Mohammed Al-Khalidi, Steve Parker, and Suzanne Henderson discuss AI in Clinical Audit and whether the benefits outweigh the risks.
This episode's guests:
Angela Ward is the clinical audit and outcomes manager at The London Clinic.
Dr Mohammed Al-Khalidi is a Senior Lecturer in Cyber Security and leads the Cyber Security Research Lab at Manchester Metropolitan University’s Department of Computing and Mathematics.
Steve Parker is the Technical Director of Meantime IT.
Suzanne Henderson is the Programme Manager at Meantime AMaT.
Podcast archive
The AMaT Conference
News about the next AMaT Conference will be announced soon
What is the AMaT Conference?
AMaT is more than just a governance system, it’s a whole community, which has been steadily growing since 2016, and we now enjoy a great collaborative relationship with users from forty-four NHS Trusts and healthcare organisations.
Once a year, we provide an opportunity for members of that community to get together for a day of presentations and activities that allow them to share their work and experiences with their colleagues.
The first conference took place in 2022, and we are really pleased that we can continue to facilitate this free, in-person event for the benefit of the clinical audit and quality improvement community working in NHS and private healthcare settings. Each year we continue to welcome AMaT users and non-AMaT users alike for a day of talks, training, networking, and discussions with the aim of supporting you in your work.
Previous highlights of The AMaT Conference
- NCEPOD director, Marisa Mason on reporting and tools
- CQC inspector, Mary Aubrey on the role audit plays
- Director of Nursing, Laura Neal and Patient Safety Specialist, Richard Young on PSIRF
- NICE manager, Madalina Bleau on acknowledging clinical variance
- Lead Medical Examiner, Dr Jean McLeod on developing Structured Judgement Reviews
- and much more!
Celebrating your work
The AMaT Conference proudly displays and rewards the work you do through a popular competition. This is judged across three categories: Clinical Audit Team posters, Improvement Through AMaT posters, and Quality Improvement posters.
All the work provides a highlight of the conference and the delegates consistently express their appreciation at the learning opportunities presented in the submissions.
AMaT Academy
AMaT Academy is a learning resource, designed to help our users get the most from AMaT.
The growing list of video tutorials include logging in, registering projects for Clinical Audit, Ward & Area, Cumulative, and QI, as well as managing statements of compliance, setting up inspections, understanding Mortality and Morbidity Review and more.
AMaT Quarterly
The AMaT Quarterly is a newsletter to keep AMaT users up-to-date with development information, user feedback, clinical audit news, and more.
Each issue follows on from AMaT’s quarterly development updates and contains brief articles on a wide range of topics relevant to anyone working with clinical audit or quality improvement.
Readers are invited to submit articles, sharing their experience with others.
Trying to access or register with AMaT?
Each organisation has a small group of Super Users who can help you with your enquiry.
Please contact your Clinical Audit & Effectiveness or Quality Assurance Team to identify the Super Users for your organisation.
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AMaT is now working with 50 NHS Trusts, Health Boards, and healthcare organisations to improve governance related activity.
