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HQIP (Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership) is an independent, not-for-profit 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 in healthcare.
A national home for audit, registry and outcomes data professionals.
Clinical audit is a way to find out if health or social care is being provided in line with standards. It lets care providers and patients know where their service is doing well, and
where there could be improvements, to enable improvement in the quality of care to take place where it will be most helpful and will improve patient outcomes.
Quality improvement is the systematic use of methods and tools to continuously improve care and outcomes for patients.
By measuring healthcare services, our programmes – which consists of national clinical audits, outcome reviews and registries – provide evidence for what is working well and where improvement will have maximum impact. As such, they support healthcare providers to implement changes that will improve care and outcomes for everyone.
Our programmes generate a wealth of information that is already collected and ready to use, offering an invaluable resource in the drive for transformation.
HQIP commissions the UK’s largest suite of national clinical audits and outcome reviews (the National Clinical Audit and Patient Outcomes Programme, NCAPOP), and hosts the largest orthopaedic registry (the National Joint Registry, NJR) in the world, on behalf of NHS England, the Welsh Government and others. They cover a wide range of conditions, from asthma to vascular health.
The NHS Standard Contract requires relevant providers of NHS services to participate in the National Clinical Audit and Patient Outcomes Programme (NCAPOP). NHS Trusts are responsible for funding a proportion of the NCAPOP costs through a process known as subscription funding.
More about subscription funding
HQIP is responsible for managing the full commissioning cycle for the National Clinical Audit and Patient Outcomes Programme (NCAPOP). This involves:
- managing the procurement of new projects
- managing the procurement of those projects selected for re-commissioning
- contract management of the team or organisations contracted to deliver those projects.
More about our commissioning process
More about HQIP’s tenders
Patients are involved at every stage of our work, from programme design through to the development of outputs – and much in between.
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Our programmes result in clinically-validated, publicly available data on a wide range of conditions, from asthma to vascular health, that is trusted by patients and clinicians alike. This evidence comes in the form of HQIP-published reports – with data, recommendations and infographics – while further data and resources are often available directly from our programmes.
Also, find out more about how you can request access HQIP’s data for wider public benefit.
We produce a regularly updated schedule of outputs from the National Clinical Audit and Patient Outcomes Programme (NCAPOP).
You can also stay up-to-date by subscribing to our mailing list, to receive updates when new reports are released: Subscribe to HQIP’s mailing list.
We signpost to programmes, reports and other information relating specific care areas (such as cancer) and other key topics (such as healthcare inequalities), on this site. Simply use the ‘by Topic’ tab across the top of every page, and select you area(s) of interest.
HQIP’s National Clinical Audit Benchmarking (NCAB) website provides an interactive visualisation of metric results from across the National Clinical Audit and Patient Outcomes Programme, searchable by audit, topic, keyword and healthcare provider. Clinical audit data is also available on the NHS open access Model Health System.
The identification of statistical outliers, to signal potential variation in care that can indicate differences in patient outcomes, safety, and experience.
A Quality Account is a written report, which NHS healthcare providers are required to publish each year about the quality of their services.
The NHS England Quality Accounts List is made available each year and comprises national audits, clinical outcome review programmes and other quality improvement projects that NHS England advises Trusts to prioritise for participation during the forthcoming financial year.
HQIP is committed to supporting the clinical audit community, healthcare providers and the wider community to deliver robust clinical audit and quality improvement projects. As such, we provide a range of resources, including guidance, case studies, online learning and more.
We can also support you to deliver effective, evidence-informed healthcare improvement, through a range of services:
Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership Ltd (HQIP) (referred to as “HQIP” “We, “Our” or “Us”) is committed to protecting the privacy and security of your Personal Data and being open and honest about how it is used.
This week-long campaign, hosted by HQIP, aims to improve and save lives by promoting and celebrating the critical role of clinical audit and data-driven healthcare improvement. It includes the Excellence in Clinical Audit Awards.
Apart from accessing our reports, data and other resources, you can:
- Subscribe to our mailing list
- Connect on social media – use the buttons on the home and news pages of this site
- Attend our events
- Get involved in Clinical Audit Awareness Week and awards
Patients and carers can sign up to join our Service User Network (SUN).
We signpost to information that is of interest to key audiences, such as healthcare providers and patients, on this site. Simply use the ‘Information for’ tab across the top of every page.
