National Clinical Audit of Perioperative Care (NCAPC)

Programme overview

Perioperative care refers to the practice of patient-centred, multidisciplinary, and integrated care from the point of consideration of surgery to full recovery (i.e. the non-technical aspects of surgical pathways).

The National Clinical Audit of Perioperative Care (NCAPC) aims to reduce unwarranted deviation from evidence-based practice in the perioperative pathway, and thereby reduce complications and increase patients’ health-related quality of life.

HQIP commissioned the Royal College of Anaesthetists to deliver the NCAPC in October 2025, with the first year being used to design the optimal methodology to audit care.

Accessing data

Data collected on behalf of HQIP by all NCAPOP projects is routinely reported and these reports are available in the ‘Related resources’ section. The reported data is also placed on the data.gov.uk website.

For regularly updated dynamic reporting of audit data, follow the link in the HQIP Directory in the column called ‘Link to dynamic reporting’.

For details of how to apply for data that is not in the public domain, please see HQIP’s data access webpages.

Details of the contracts that HQIP awards are available at: https://www.gov.uk/contracts-finder.