Other Q.I. Initiatives

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Overview:

HQIP works on various areas of quality improvement as well as our work on clinical audit. For example, HQIP also commissions and promotes best practice in clinical registers and databases.

Other major areas of interest are:

• Accreditation of clinical services
• In developing the professional culture of QI as a whole, and training for QI - see our Position Paper on the need for an integrated system of training or work in quality
• In shaping the broader development of information systems in the NHS to support quality, and have contributed to thinking on Information strategy in the NHS - see our Information Position Paper
• Provider board-specific good governance resources 

Hqip supports an inter-disciplinary think tank on quality as a whole - the UKQC.

Core model of clinical service accreditation  

Core model of clinical service accreditation  

In 2009, Professor Sir Bruce Keogh proposed that the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges lead the development of "a core model of [clinical service] accreditation, shared across the health service".

The Academy asked the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP) to coordinate its further development. On their behalf, after consultation, HQIP produced the  Core Model for Clinical Service Accreditation guidelines, which was submitted to the National Quality Board at the Department of Health and received commendation as a desirable model of accreditation of clinical service accreditation schemes. HQIP is currently working with the Academy and specific Royal Colleges to make the scheme operational.

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Surveillance registers for congenital anomalies

HQIP commissions, on behalf of the Department of Health, a surveillance network for detection of congenital anomalies and regional surveillance registers covering these conditions.

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