Improving lives with trusted healthcare data
Data has the power to transform and save lives. By measuring healthcare services, our programmes provide evidence for what is working well and where improvement will have maximum impact.
Saving and transforming patients' lives
By shining a light on where changes improve outcomes, and sharing that knowledge, we are seeing real-world results.
Improving lives
Supporting healthcare strategy and efficiencies
Find out how clinical audit and outcomes data support healthcare providers and commissioners to deliver care and strategy more efficiently.
Supporting strategy
Helping to address inequalities in healthcare
Clinical audits and similar programmes are invaluable in addressing inequalities in healthcare, patient experience and outcomes.
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The home of healthcare data
HQIP is an independent charity that manages the largest national clinical audit and outcome review programme in the UK, on behalf of NHS England, the Welsh Government and others. Covering a wide range of common conditions, our work provides publicly available data that is trusted by patients and clinicians alike, and supports evidence-based improvement.
If asked how to design an NHS that is ‘Fit for the Future’, I would say start with national clinical audits” Dame Celia Ingham Clark, HQIP Chair
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Programmes, data & resources
Latest reports
Epilepsy – 2026 combined organisational and clinical audits
- Epilepsy12 (National Clinical Audit of Seizures and Epilepsies for Children and Young People)
Ovarian cancer – State of the Nation report
- National Ovarian Cancer Audit (NOCA),
- National Cancer Audit Collaborating Centre (NATCAN)
Articles
Culture Follows Structure
Structural change must come before cultural change in patient safety. Professor Ted Baker, Chair of the Health Services…
Mapping dementia care: from variation to evidence-informed improvement
As the HQIP-commissioned National Audit of Dementia (NAD) releases its latest report on dementia care, Associate Director James Campbell, examines how its insights – and…
Mental health: Using evidence to improve care
HQIP’s CEO, Chris Gush, explains why data is pivotal to the national review of services…
News
New reports published
NEW RESOURCES to support improvement in healthcare, from HQIP’s audits and programmes, have been published.
National strategy a positive step in the prevention of cardiovascular disease
This week, NHS England published a new Modern Service Framework (MSF) for cardiovascular disease prevention,…
Benchmarking data published
Data relating to paediatric diabetes and perinatal mortality has been published on HQIP’s benchmarking site, NCAB.
Position statement: Audit & QI in postgraduate training
HQIP has shared a position statement on resetting audit and quality improvement in UK postgraduate…
Latest news: June 2026 eBulletin
Find out about the latest news and updates relating to clinical audit, outcome reviews and data-informed healthcare improvement.