How we work: our people

HQIP is split into four teams:

Central support team 

Contracts and procurement team 

National Joint Registry team

Quality improvement and development team 

• A core central support team providing financial management and handling communications
• A contracts and procurement team which oversees the contracts process for all audit programmes, including National Clinical Audit & Patient Outcomes Programme (NCAPOP) and Clinical Outcome Review Programmes (CORP)
• A quality improvement team which promotes clinical audit to local practitioners, and seeks to improve capacity, competence and effectiveness of audit at local level 
• A National Joint Registry team, responsible for ensuring HQIP programmes, including professional validation and the National Joint Registry (NJR), are aligned to broader policy direction, and the development of strategic policy and national projects

Robin Burgess - Chief Executive 

Robin is responsible for the management and strategic oversight of HQIP and you may be interested to follow the CEO's blog here>>  He contributes regular position papers and features on this site and through NCAF.

Robin is an executive board member of the European Society for Quality in Healthcare (ESQH), a member of the Programme Board for Quality Standards at NICE and a member of the Academy of Royal Colleges Quality leads group.

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Joan Shearman - Business Manager

Responsible for providing effective business management to HQIP, including finance management and HR.  Contact >>

James Thornton - Communications Manager

Responsible for overall management of marketing, communications and media liaison building relationships with HQIP stakeholders.  Contact >>

Rebecca Beaumont - Communications Officer

Responsible for day-to-day communications for the National Joint Registry and assisting with general HQIP communications. Contact >>

Eve Riley - Development Officer

Responsible for the development of, and fundraising for, new quality improvement initiatives.  Contact >>

Sharon Lukom - Office Manager/Executive Co-ordinator

Responsible for administrative and office management, as well as executive support for the Chief Executive.  Contact >>

Paul Brown - Finance Officer

Responsible for accounting and payroll.  Contact >>

Lorna Pridmore - Office Administrator

Responsible for administrative and office management support.  Contact >>

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Helen Laing - National Clinical Audit Lead

Responsible for overseeing the contracts process for all audit programmes, including NCAPOP, CORP and the NJR.  Contact >>

Stanley Goh - Head of Procurement

Responsible for overseeing procurement for all audit programmes, including NCAPOP, CORP and the NJR.  Contact >>

Carol Pilcher - Procurement Manager

Responsible for general procurement advice and issuing new tenders for the audit programme.  Contact >>

Yvonne Silove - National Clinical Audit Senior Development Officer

Responsible for overseeing tender specifications, working alongside contracts and procurement staff within NCAPOP.  Contact >>

Sam McIntyre - National Clinical Audit Development Associate

Responsible for supporting development activity within NCAPOP and assisting the Senior Development Officer.  Contact >>

Yvonne Tse - National Clinical Audit Programme and Development Officer

Responsible for supporting the NCAPOP programme including the Standard Report Procedure and Data Collection Tool.  Contact >>

Lailaa Carr - National Contracts and Project Officer

Responsible for contracting support and drafting of contracts.  Contact >>

Jenny Mooney - Clinical Outcome Review Business Manager

Responsible for leading CORP, assisting with procurement processes, financial management and development of performance manageent plans.  Contact >>

Moragh Loose - Clinical Outcome Review Programme Manager

Responsible for supporting contracting processes for CORP and project specification. Contact >>

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Quality Improvement and Development team

Kate Godfrey - National Lead for Quality Improvement and Development

Responsible for promoting clinical audit to local practitioners in order to improve capacity, competence and effectiveness of audit at local level.  Contact >>

Liz Smith - Quality Improvement and Development Facilitator

Responsible for supporting the development and delivery of a function that encourages and facilitates clinical audit and other quality improvement activities.  Contact >>

Mandy Smith - Quality Improvement and Development Facilitator

Responsible for supporting the development and delivery of a function that encourages and facilitates clinical audit and other quality improvement activities.  Contact >>

Alex Bird - Quality Improvement and Development Co-ordinator

Responsible for providing administrative support and co-ordinating team activities and events.  Contact >>

Kim Rezel - Quality Improvement and Development Officer

Responsible for assisting in the formulation of HQIP operational policy and development activity, the management of stakeholder relationships and the advancement of HQIP key strategic aims.  Contact >>

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National Joint Registry team

Elaine Young - National Development Lead

Responsible for ensuring HQIP programmes are aligned to broader policy direction, and the development of strategic policy and national projects, including professional validation and the National Joint Registry (NJR).  Contact >>

Responsible for supporting the NJR steering group, assisting in the formulation of HQIP operational policy and development activity in relation to the NJR, assisting in the management of stakeholder relationships and the advancement of HQIP key strategic aims.  Contact >>

Michael Robinson - Research Development Officer (NJR)

Responsible for supporting the NJR Research sub-committee and developing the NJR research function.  Contact >>

Alex Henderson - Committee Administrator

Responsible for providing a secretariat function to the National Joint Registry Steering Committee and sub-committees, as well as the National Clinical Audit Advisory Group.  Contact >>

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