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IBD audit report shows improvements for biological therapies patients
Published: 25 Sep 2015
The UK inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) clinical audit report reveals today that the majority of patients (80% adult and 77% paediatric) with Crohn’s disease saw an improvement following biological therapies.
National hip fracture database 2015
Published: 10 Sep 2015
Report finds 64,000 hip fracture injuries annually occupy 4,000 inpatient beds at any one time across England, Wales and Northern Ireland: 1 in 40 of all NHS beds.
Head and neck cancer audit: large variances in survival rates reported
Published: 08 Sep 2015
The National Head and Neck Cancer Audit has found that the four-year crude survival rate from the head and neck group of cancers ranged widely.
Medical and surgical outcome review programme: Sepsis report November launch details
Published: 08 Sep 2015
National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death (NCEPOD) have been commission by HQIP to conduct a clinical outcome review programme on sepsis, a review of the process of care received by patients with known or suspected sepsis . The aim of this study is to identify and explore avoidable and remediable factors in the process of care for patients with known or suspected sepsis.
Medical and surgical outcome review programme: NCEPOD call for new topics
Published: 08 Sep 2015
National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death (NCEPOD), which delivers the Medical and surgical outcome review programme is commissioned by HQIP on behalf of NHS England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales to undertake the Medical & Surgical Clinical Outcome Programme.
HQIP supports 6th annual junior doctors’ clinical audit competition
Published: 08 Sep 2015
HQIP is pleased to announce its third consecutive year of collaboration with the Clinical Audit Support Centre for the annual junior doctors 'clinical audit and quality improvement' competitions.
HQIP awards Saving Faces contract to deliver National Head and Neck Cancer Audit
Published: 08 Sep 2015
Interim data collection guidance confirmed as part of transition to new supplier
Emergency medicine: data collection live for three Quality Accounts-listed audits
Published: 08 Sep 2015
The Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM)is pleased to inform all clinical audit professionals that the data entry website for their 2015-16 national clinical audits will open tomorrow (Friday 31 July 2015).
Large rise in suicide among male mental health care patients, review programme report finds
Published: 08 Sep 2015
There has been a 29% rise in suicide since 2006 among men under the care of mental health services in the UK, a report for the Mental health outcome review programme by The National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness (NCISH) shows. The number of suicides in male patients has now reached 1,239 per year.