Department of Health announces subscription funding for nine NCAs

19 January 2011

NHS Medical Director Professor Sir Bruce Keogh wrote to NHS Trusts and NHS Foundation Trusts yesterday to outline a change in the way that nine National Clinical Audits (NCAs) will be funded from April 2012.

Read the letter to Medical and Financial Directors here >>

HQIP, who manage and commission audits through the National Clinical Audit and Patient Outcomes Programme, will write to NHS providers in the first quarter of 2012/13 with further information about how the process will work.  Subscriptions will be collected in the second quarter of 2012/13. 

From 2012/13, NHS and Foundation Trusts will be required, where they are providing services, to contribute to the cost of nine audits (listed below):

• Bowel Cancer
• Head & Neck Cancer
• Lung Cancer
• Oesophageal Cancer
• Angioplasty audit
• Myocardial Infarction
• Heart Failure
• Neonatal Intensive care
• Cartoid Interventions

Further updates will be announced on the HQIP news page and via the fortnightly eBulletin.