News, events & blogs
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UK health, quality and standards organisations join forces in support of clinical service accreditation
Published: 22 Oct 2019
Increasing assurances mechanisms and accreditation in clinical services will lead to improvements in the quality of health services in the UK, according to a consortium of British organisations.
Clinical Audit Heroes Awards 2019 – now open
Published: 02 Oct 2019
Who's your #AuditHero? To celebrate Clinical Audit Awareness Week, every year we run our Clinical Audit Heroes Awards campaign which recognises outstanding engagement in clinical audit and quality improvement. We are pleased to announce that the awards are now open for this year. Nominations are open until 1 November and for the first time we have 5 special categories for our Audit Heroes: Clinical Audit Professional, Student, Volunteer, Clinical Practitioner and Team of the Year. Each category will also have a local and national award.
New pilot launched to include independent health providers in national clinical audits
Published: 02 Oct 2019
A new pilot is being launched to enable health procedures provided by independent healthcare providers in England to be included in future national clinical audits.
Making patient information accessible and bagging a highly-commended award
Published: 14 Aug 2019
The Falls and Fragility Fracture Audit Programme was highly commended in last year’s Richard Driscoll Memorial Award. Their award entry showed how they worked with patients to make information accessible and dynamic. In this blog post, project manager Bonnie Wiles explains more about their approach and what the award means to them.
HQIP joins UK Health Data Research Alliance
Published: 01 Aug 2019
Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP) has joined the UK Health Data Research Alliance to accelerate progress in medicine and health through better access to health data.
How a patient panel is driving improvement
Published: 02 Jul 2019
Iona Price is the chair of a national clinical audit patient panel. In this blog she explains how the panel is driving improvements in communications and collaboration.
Meaningful engagement: how do you get it right?
Published: 29 May 2019
Patient engagement advocate Linda Partridge shares her insight into what makes engagement and involvement with parents successful.
HQIP patient advocate discusses meaningful engagement with parents
Published: 25 Apr 2019
Patient advocate and former WellChild director Linda Partridge supports our national programme examining poor clinical outcomes in services providing care for children.
Key role for HQIP experts at national summit
Published: 07 Mar 2019
Three experts from the UK’s leading organisation on clinical audit will address a national summit on improving health services later this month.
Throwing the baby out with the bathwater?
Published: 08 Jan 2019
Why calls for a national quality improvement programme overlook the debt owed to clinical audit. The recent article from Boyle and Keep is interesting as it does set out several of the perceived down sides of clinical audit, be it national or local. However, it suggests that substituting it with a National Quality Improvement Programme will rectify these perceived drawbacks.
Appointment to National Joint Registry Steering Committee
Published: 17 Dec 2018
Robin Brittain has been appointed as a patient representative member from 1 January 2019 for two years. The role will involve a time commitment of four days per year for the Steering Committee meetings and any additional days to attend other sub-committee meetings as required throughout year.
CAAW 2018 Hall of Fame
Published: 30 Nov 2018
Here are our clinical audit heroes this year! We received a record number of nominees for our CAAW Audit Hero 2018 campaign this year and of course everyone is an audit hero in our eyes and the winner of the week is clinical audit. Here is our Hall of Fame list showcasing all of the other fantastic nominees.
Clinical Audit Heroes – 2018
Published: 19 Nov 2018
Who’s your #AuditHero? During Clinical Audit Awareness Week 2018 we are running our third 'Clinical Audit Heroes' campaign to honour individuals who've made outstanding contributions to clinical audit and quality improvement. As always, we've received nominations from a range of backgrounds - clinicians, patient volunteers, members of audit teams among others have all been acknowledged by their peers as contributing to clinical audit in a positive way.
National Clinical Audit and Patient Outcome programme – Reporting
Published: 07 Nov 2018
The Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP) commissions, on behalf of NHS England and the Welsh Government (the funders), the National Clinical Audit and Patient Outcome Programme (NCAPOP). This is a unique, world leading resource, designed by clinicians, commissioners and patients providing both quality assurance (QA) and quality improvement (QI) of the services that the NHS offers. QA has always been fundamental, and remains so, but as the programme matures, QI is becoming more important and HQIP are working with funders and clinicians to ensure that the programme maximises the QI opportunities. As the programme grows in stature, we are working to ensure delays are minimised, and that the multiple improvement messages get to those who are best placed to enact the recommendations. This is not a static process and both the funders and commissioners, plan to keep this process under constant review so that we and our patients get the most out of the programme yet have the results disseminated, and acted upon, as speedily as possible.
Member (Medical Director) appointment to the National Joint Registry Steering Committee (NJRSC)
Published: 02 Nov 2018
Timothy Wilton has been appointed as member (Medical Director) from 1st January 2019 for 3 years. The role will involve a time commitment of up to 2 days per week.
Epilepsy audit wins memorial award for outstanding patient involvement
Published: 11 Oct 2018
The winner of the 2018 Richard Driscoll Memorial Award was announced today (11 October 2018) at the annual Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP) AGM in London.
Inaugural Richard Driscoll Memorial Award: 2018 candidates announced
Published: 10 Oct 2018
Landmark report shows hospitals learning from deaths to improve patient care
Published: 08 Oct 2018
A landmark new report published today by the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) reveals how hospitals are using a standardised review approach to learn from adult acute deaths and improve patient care. The publication of Learning from Deaths by the National Quality Board (NQB) in March 2017 mandated all English trusts to conduct mortality reviews, a move supported by the NMCRR programme.1
Landmark report shows hospitals learning from deaths to improve patient care
Published: 05 Oct 2018
A landmark new report published today by the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) reveals how hospitals are using a standardised review approach to learn from adult acute deaths and improve patient care. The publication of Learning from Deaths by the National Quality Board (NQB) in March 2017 mandated all English trusts to conduct mortality reviews, a move supported by the NMCRR programme.