Project summary
Baseline Audit · Cycle 1
To assess whether patients presenting with pain receive timely pain scoring, appropriate analgesia and documented reassessment, and to identify improvement actions that reduce delays to effective pain relief.
This audit reviews the timeliness and quality of analgesia for patients presenting with pain in urgent, emergency or acute assessment settings. It helps teams identify delays in pain assessment, prescribing, administration, reassessment and escalation, and supports safer, more compassionate and more reliable pain management.
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Record your first Time to Analgesia episode to populate the dashboard and outputs.
Workflow
Standard Lazomis QIP tabs
Target users and services
Where this tool applies
- Emergency departments
- Urgent treatment centres
- Acute medical units
- Surgical assessment units
- Same-day emergency care services
- Paediatric areas only if locally adapted
- Nurses, doctors, ACPs, pharmacists, pain teams, QI leads, governance teams
Safety and governance
This tool supports local audit and quality improvement. It does not replace clinical judgement, local analgesia protocols, controlled drug policy, specialist pain advice, safeguarding procedures or urgent escalation pathways. Do not enter patient names, NHS numbers, hospital numbers, full dates of birth, addresses or other direct identifiers.