Saving and improving lives with trusted healthcare data
Data has the power to transform and save lives. By measuring healthcare services, our programmes provide evidence for what is working well and where improvement will have maximum impact.
Breast Cancer Awareness Month
This Breast Cancer Awareness Month we take a look at the pivotal role of national clinical audits in supporting improvements in breast cancer care and outcomes.
Breast cancer hub
Improving patient safety
Find out how robust data from clinical audits plays an essential role in helping to identify risks, prevent harm, and build safer systems of care for patients.
Patient safety
Helping to address inequalities in healthcare
Clinical audits and similar programmes are invaluable in addressing inequalities in healthcare, patient experience and outcomes.
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The home of healthcare data
The Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP) is an independent charity that manages the largest programme of national clinical audits, outcome reviews and registries in the UK, on behalf of NHS England, the Welsh Government and others.
Covering a wide range of common conditions, our work provides publicly available data that is trusted by patients and clinicians alike, and supports evidence-based improvement.
If asked how to design an NHS that is ‘Fit for the Future’, I would say start with national clinical audits” Dame Celia Ingham Clark, HQIP Chair
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Beyond hip fracture
- Falls and Fragility Fracture Audit (FFFAP), incl National Hip Fracture Database (NHFD)
Prostate cancer – State of the Nation report 2026
- National Cancer Audit Collaborating Centre (NATCAN),
- National Prostate Cancer Audit (NPCA)
Bowel cancer – State of the Nation Report 2026
- National Bowel Cancer Audit (NBOCA),
- National Cancer Audit Collaborating Centre (NATCAN)
Articles
How clinical audit is helping the NHS improve the entire breast cancer pathway
October 2026 is Breast Cancer Awareness Month – find out more about HQIP’s work on…
My breast cancer story: From heartbreak to hope
As part of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, patient representative, advocate and author of ‘Why Me?…
From data to safer care: The role of stroke audit in improving quality of care
Published in partnership with Patient Safety Learning. Ensuring patients receive the right care at the…
News
New improvement reports published
NEW RESOURCES to support improvement in healthcare, from HQIP’s audits and programmes, have been published.
Co-production in clinical audit and quality improvement
Insights and Guidance from People with Lived Experience Clinical audit and quality improvement are most…
National Early Inflammatory Autoimmune Diseases Audit
HQIP is seeking to commission the delivery of the National Early Inflammatory Autoimmune Diseases Audit…
New breast cancer care hub launched for Breast Cancer Awareness Month
As part of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, HQIP has created a new breast cancer care…
NHS England Quality Accounts List 2027-28: Annual scoping survey
Providers of national audits and quality improvement projects that would like to be considered for…