HQIP gains charitable status
15 December 2008: The Charity Commission has last week confirmed the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership's (HQIP) application to become a charity.
Robin Burgess, HQIP's Chief Executive, said, "this is exciting news - having charitable status allows us to reinforce our position and attract funding from a wider range of sources to support our work. As a charity, we are strengthened in our healthcare quality improvement work, with its aim to improve patient outcomes, throughout England and Wales".
HQIP is led by a consortium of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, the Royal College of Nursing and National Voices (formerly the Long-Term Conditions Alliance), making it ideally placed to enable a culture of quality improvement by engaging healthcare professionals of all disciplines and specialties, as well as patients and service users. In addition to being not-for-profit, gaining the seal of charity status makes clear that HQIP is firmly part of the public, rather that the private or commercial, sector.
Dr Paul Lelliott, Chairman of HQIP, added, ‘we believe that building both national and local level partnerships between clinicians, clinical teams, managers and patients is at the heart of good healthcare. Supporting local staff, fostering active dissemination of information and implementing quality improvement initiatives is key - achieving charitable status helps us achieve these goals".
HQIP works collaboratively with its stakeholders, including the public, and has three immediate priorities: to manage and develop the national clinical audit programme, to support and enable clinical audit staff on a local level, and to promote clinical audit as the engine that drives quality improvement.
Future work will fall across other healthcare quality improvement initiatives, including the role of audit in the revalidation of clinicians.
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