Improving lives with 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.
Saving lives and transforming patients' lives
By shining a light on where changes improve outcomes, and sharing that knowledge, we are seeing real-world results.
Saving lives
Supporting healthcare strategy and efficiencies
Find out how clinical audit and outcomes data support healthcare providers and commissioners to deliver care and strategy more efficiently.
Supporting strategy
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
HQIP is an independent charity that manages the largest national clinical audit and outcome review programme 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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Programmes, data & resources
Latest reports
Paediatric diabetes – care and outcomes 2024/25
- National Paediatric Diabetes Audit (NPDA)
Multiple births outcomes of maternity care
- National Maternity and Perinatal Audit (NMPA)
Understanding consanguinity-related child deaths
- National Child Mortality Database (NCMD)
Lung cancer – State of the Nation 2026
- National Lung Cancer Audit (NLCA),
- National Cancer Audit Collaborating Centre (NATCAN)
Articles
Measure, Learn, Improve: Audit data and continuous learning in the NHS
Across the NHS, clinicians and teams collaborate every day to provide safe, effective, and compassionate…
A unique perspective: Seeing both sides of the story
Meg uses her dual experience of maternity care and as a service user representative to…
National Cancer Plan: Opportunity for change
A catalyst for working together to deliver a step change in improvement. A step change…
News
Registration open: free Clinical Audit Awareness Week webinars
Register for free, national Clinical Audit Awareness Week 2026 webinars, offering a unique opportunity to explore how data-driven insight can transform patient care.
HQIP welcomes new Medical Director
We are pleased to announce that Professor Tom Wilkinson has been appointed as HQIP’s new Medical Director.
Survey now open: Inform our system analysis of Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) in Health Data
Patient and Public Involvement in health data – survey now open until Monday 18 May 2026.
Last chance: Excellence in Clinical Audit Awards close 19 April
Last chance – the Excellence in Clinical Audit Awards close for entries Sunday 19 April 2026.