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Schedule 1— Description of quality assurance activity

1 Name of activity:

    Breast Surgeons of Australia and New Zealand Quality Audit.

2 Description of activity:

    This declaration applies to the Breast Surgeons of Australia and New Zealand (BreastSurgANZ) Quality Audit (BQA).

    The BQA is a clinical audit that collects breast cancer surgery information from breast surgeons. The BQA compares surgeons' clinical results with Quality Thresholds for Key Performance Indicators set by the BQA Subcommittee, relating to a patient's optimal care pathway.

    The BQA promotes collaborative research to improve breast cancer care through teaching, research, and the development of evidence-based strategies that monitor individual members' surgical performance and improve outcomes using evidence based benchmarks produced from the audit. Surgeons may access their own data and analyse aggregate data from the BQA to establish an evidence base to make changes in recommended treatments to improve breast surgery outcomes. The BQA also includes the implementation of the BreastSurgANZ Clinical Quality Improvement Program Policy as approved by the BreastSurgANZ Council on 27 March 2020.

    The BQA activity will be engaged in by the BreastSurgANZ, which is a specialty society for surgeons treating breast cancer.

    This declaration follows the previously declared activity QAA 6/2015. This declaration is likely to encourage a greater level of participation than the previously declared activity.