Clinical Audit Awareness Week 2024

The next Clinical Audit Awareness Week (#CAAW24) will be held from 24-28 June 2024, and features the Clinical Audit Heroes Awards (more below). Run in collaboration with the National Quality Improvement (incl. Clinical Audit) Network (N-QI-CAN), it is a national campaign to promote and celebrate the benefits and impact of clinical audit and quality improvement work in healthcare.

Exciting updates 🎉

EVENT: NHS IMPACT and HQIP Quality Improvement

Wednesday 26 June 2024; 10-11am (online)

We are delighted to announce that NHS IMPACT and HQIP will deliver an online event, to share learning around the effective use of data and evidence to inform meaningful and actionable quality improvement. With a live Q&A, speakers will include Professor Ailsa Brotherton, Improvement Director for NHS IMPACT, and Clare Fountain, Associate Director of Healthcare Quality Improvement at HQIP, as well as best practice case studies.

Register with NHS IMPACT using the following link, and they will share details in due course: NHS IMPACT and HQIP Quality Improvement Event | NHS England Events.

EVENT: From Audit to Impact (A case study: National Cancer Centre)

Thursday 27 June 2024; 4-5pm (online)

The National Cancer Audit Collaborating Centre (NATCAN) will be talking about their work since the Centre was established in October 2022. They will be demonstrating their new dashboards and showing how Trust/health board/Cancer Alliance’s data is reported, and how it can be used effectively to influence change. Join this online event to find out more about the quarterly rapid release data, the annual State of the Nation reports, the outlier process and future plans.

Register here to obtain an MS Teams link* to add to your calendar and use to join this event on the day (this takes just a few minutes). *If you have issues registering for this event, please contact [email protected].

EVENT: A conversation with Stella Vig, National Medical Director for Secondary Care and Quality, NHS England

Friday 28 June 2024; 2.30-3.30pm (online)

Join us for a live discussion with Stella Vig, followed by a Q&A. HQIP’s Clinical Fellow, Claudia Snudden, will be interviewing Stella about her role within NHS England, how this contrasts with her life ‘on the ground’ as a practising clinician, and the challenges associated with translating data and evidence into action and impact at national level. This promises to be an engaging session that gives an insight into the role that clinical audit plays within NHS England in helping improve quality, services, safety and outcome for patients.

Register here to obtain an MS Teams link* to add to your calendar and use to join this event on the day (this takes just a few minutes). *If you have issues registering for this event, please contact [email protected]. 

VIDEO: The Mutual Benefits of Patient and Public Involvement (PPI)

In this new video, we will hear from three HQIP Service User Network (SUN) members about how they helped to co-design a sustainable model for implementing meaningful public involvement in HQIP’s Data Access Request Group (DARG). This video will be launched at the Clinical Audit Awareness Week online Lunch & Learn event on Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) (details below), at which there will be an exclusive opportunity to hear from the people involved as well as HQIP’s Head of Patient Engagement, Kim Rezel, about the mutual benefits of working together on this project.

This video will also be shared on the HQIP website during Clinical Audit Awareness Week (Tuesday 25 June 2024).

BLOG: The importance of data gathering in addressing health inequalities

“For the COVID-19 pandemic, we all came together to make quick and significant strides to tackle difficult problems. Health inequalities is a similar issue.” In this new blog article, Professor Danny Keenan, HQIP Medical Director and Associate Medical Director to the Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, discusses the barriers to reporting health inequality data – found to be the case in the National Clinical Audit and Patient Outcome Programme (NCAPOP) in a recent report – and the on-going implications for patients.

This blog article will be shared on the HQIP website during Clinical Audit Awareness Week (Monday 24 June 2024).

RESOURCES: Clinical audit and quality improvement support

In addition to these events and outputs, HQIP will be resharing a number of resources to support clinical audit and quality improvement during Clinical Audit Awareness Week, including articles, e-learning, case studies, reports, guidance, blogs and more. Keep an eye on our website between 24 and 28 June…

Get involved

It is important for the wider health and care sector to get involved in this campaign, to share the value of taking an evidence-informed approach to service design. As such, we ask that Trusts and other providers get on board by organising local activities during Clinical Audit Awareness Week. You can get your wider organisation involved in this campaign by encouraging others to submit award nomination(s), organising events, and by sharing news of your activities. To support this, we have created a free online toolkit of resources you can download and share. Don’t forget to use #CAAW24 when sharing on social media!

Clinical Audit Heroes Awards NOW OPEN

The Clinical Audit Heroes Awards are the highlight of Clinical Audit Awareness Week. They are an opportunity to recognise, share and learn from the work taking place to improve the quality of healthcare for patients and users of services. These awards are NOW OPEN for nominations (and will close on Sunday 5 May). There are five categories and more information, including criteria and a short online nomination form for each category, can be found on the Clinical Audit Heroes Awards page.

The award winners will be announced at the following Lunch & Learn events, so keep the relevant date(s) free if planning an entry…

Lunch & Learn events

Daily online Lunch & Learn events will take place during Clinical Audit Awareness Week 2024, from 12.30-1.30pm. Make a note of the dates and times in your diary, and use the links provided below to join on the day (we recommend that you also save these links in your diary):

Further details, including speakers, will be shared in due course.

Launch event (listen again)

Thank you to everyone who joined our online launch event on 27th March, to learn more about #CAAW24 and the awards, hosted by HQIP’s CEO, Chris Gush, and Medical Director, Prof Danny Keenan. Please find a recording of the event here. You can also view the presentation slides here.

Stay up-to-date

Online: Go to Clinical Audit Heroes Awards as well as N-QI-CAN’s website.

Newsletter: We will share updates in HQIP’s monthly eBulletins, while N-QI-CAN will provide updates via their enewsletter and ‘Forum’ (National Network and Sharing Forum, NNSF).

Social media: You can also follow HQIP and N-QI-CAN on X, where updates will be posted (look out for and use #CAAW24).

Please share: Please share news of 2024 Clinical Audit Awareness Week and the with teams throughout your organisation, and forward details to Communications teams to share via newsletters and websites.

Past campaigns

Find out more about previous Clinical Audit Awareness Weeks and Audit Heroes Awards: