June’s eBulletin is now out!

Back to contents

Clinical Audit Heroes Awards winners announced!

Clinical Audit Awareness Week 2022 (#CAAW22) – a week-long campaign, run in collaboration with the National Quality Improvement (incl. Clinical Audit) Network (N-QI-CAN), that celebrates the benefits and impact of clinical audit – took place earlier this month (13-17 June).

The week was centred around the Clinical Audit Heroes awards which recognise, share and learn from the work taking place to improve the quality of healthcare for patients and users of services. The winners were announced at a series of lunch and learn events hosted by N-QI-CAN and invited to present their work. The sessions are available to watch back here.

So who were our winners?

Patient Safety Hero
Winner: The Critical Care Audit Team at East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust
Commended: Corrine DaCosta, Advanced Neonatal Nurse Practitioner

Patient Advocate Hero: Whilst we received some excellent entries that involved patient engagement and advocacy, they were nominated across a range of categories. Therefore, we took the decision to award multiple winners in other categories, some of which contain a strong element of patient and carer engagement. Read the full update here.

Influencing Change Hero
Winner: Trauma Team at Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust
Commended: Deborah Douglas, Clinical Fellow
Commended: PIMS-TS at Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust

Health Inequalities Hero
Joint winner: National Paediatric Diabetes Audit
Joint winner: Maternity Cultural Transformation Team at Epsom and St Helier NHS University Trust

Future-proofing Healthcare Hero
Winner: Sustainable Respiratory Care Audit Team at Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Commended: Enhanced Care and Support Team at Bolton Hospital NHS Trust

Our second themed newsletter is now available, bringing you the latest reports from relevant audits, as well as key information from both HQIP and the sector on the topic of children and young people.

This edition includes:

• Latest reports on asthma and Type 1 diabetes, as well as news of up-and-coming reports
• Overview of relevant recent reports including Spotlight on Early Years
• Case studies and resources to support patient engagement
• Reports, resources and a blog from the sector on children and young people.

Read the full newsletter here.

Back to contents

• National Hip Fracture Database
• Heart Failure Audit

NCAB is an online portal providing access to national audit performance data benchmarked by speciality, Trust, hospital or unit. To find out about your provider’s benchmarked performance in a range of clinical areas, visit the NCAB website.

On 24 June 2022, the National Institute for Cardiovascular Outcomes Research (NICOR) audits, that were commissioned by HQIP (and hosted by Barts Health NHS Trust), transitioned to their new hosts NHS Arden & GEM Commissioning Support Unit. Much of the NICOR cardiac audit work will continue as before, and we have been working with NHS England and Improvement, Barts and Arden & GEM to ensure the transition was smooth.

If you require any assistance on the progress of your data access application, please contact the NICOR data sharing inbox: [email protected] and copy in Arden & GEM: [email protected].