HQIP has a clear vision, core aims and strategies. Our principles of public involvement are intended to strengthen our ambition towards achieving these. Yet, very importantly, they also show our methods of involvement in order to:
- Achieve quality improvement in all we do
- Engage meaningfully with patient advocates
- Support those we commission and work with on their approach to PPI.
This strategy sets out HQIP’s vision, commitment, and approach to embedding lived experience at the heart of our work. It outlines how we will ensure patients play a central role in shaping the way HQIP commissions all programmes, including the National Clinical Audit and Patient Outcomes Programme (NCAPOP), while supporting and encouraging our partners to do the same. The strategy reinforces our dedication to meaningful and inclusive involvement at every stage – from project design, through to evaluation and impact.
Since 2009, HQIP has embedded patient and public involvement across all areas of its work through initiatives such as the Service User Network (SUN) and the Data Access Request Group (DARG). SUN members have co-authored key policies and strategies, contributed to campaigns like Clinical Audit Awareness Week, informed commissioning decisions, and co-developed training resources. Their involvement in DARG ensures patient voices shape decisions on data use and governance.
Patient advocates play a central role in commissioning, informing the development of HQIP specifications. PPI guides how bids are assessed and commissioning decisions are made.
In 2022, HQIP also established a 30-member User Panel to guide its national obesity programme, ensuring materials and outputs are accessible and relevant to people with lived experience.
We have developed six key principles, based on learnings from our work over time, and with members of our Service User Network. This demonstrates our commitment to co-production in all that we do.
Our principles adapted from the UK Standards for Public Involvement provide a flexible framework to reflect and learn, measure and improve and can be applied to any situation.
We have six main principles:
- Inclusivity – we strive for equity, diversity, accessibility, inclusion, intersectionality and embracing of all.
- Working Together – productive, sustainable, purposeful, collaborative, and trustworthy ways of working
- Support and Learning – training, resources, barrier removal, development, and building of confidence and partnerships
- Governance – safeguarding, duty of care and legalities, accountability, and meaningful involvement
- Communication – clear, transparent, engaging, adaptable, and timely
- Influence and Impact – monitoring, learning, reporting, acting, and improving.
See the link below for the full PPI Strategy documents and resources.
This strategy will be reviewed in 2028.
Authors
- Service User Network (SUN) members
- Mala
- Melissa Ganendran
- Amy Wizard Ponter
- Dr. Sandie Woods
- HQIP
- Kim Rezel, Head of Patient and Carer Engagement
