Clinical Audit Awareness Week 2025

Run in collaboration with N-QI-CAN, Clinical Audit Awareness Week (#CAAW25) took place from 2-6 June 2025. THANK YOU to everyone who took part – your engagement is what makes this national campaign (to underline the value of clinical audit) so successful! Find below all the #CAAW25 resources and outputs:

Patient Safety

  • Find out who the 2025 Patient Safety Clinical Audit Heroes are
  • Signposting to key resources relating to patient safety
  • NEW video (YouTube) – Improving sepsis care through clinical audit, with HQIP’s Chair Celia Ingham Clark & Clinical Fellow Dr Ollie Burton (also available as a podcast)
  • NEW case study showcasing how Haywood Community Hospital is using clinical audit to strengthen sepsis recognition, escalation and treatment
  • Patient Safety Lunch & Learn, hosted by NQICAN and featuring Hester Wain, Head of Patient Safety Policy at NHS England, and HQIP’s Tina Strack. Video recording and presentation slides

Patient & Public Involvement (PPI)

  • Find out who the 2025 Patient & Public Involvement (PPI) Clinical Audit Heroes are
  • Signposting to resources relating to Patient & Public Involvement (PPI)
  • NEW video (YouTube) on Patient Advocacy in Healthcare (Real Stories of PPI video series), with HQIP’s Head of Patient Engagement, Kim Rezel, and members of HQIP’s Service User Network (also available as a podcast)
  • NEW video (YouTube) on Shared Decision Making (Real Stories of PPI video series), with HQIP’s Head of Patient Engagement, Kim Rezel, and members of HQIP’s Service User Network (also available as a podcast)
  • NEW blog article – My Data, My Health (Patient engagement in data access), featuring patient members of HQIP’s Data Access Request Group
  • Patient & Public Involvement (PPI) Lunch & Learn, hosted by NQICAN with HQIP’s Head of Patient Engagement Kim Rezel, and featuring the PPI award announcement. Presentation slides; the recording will be shared in due course

Healthcare Inequalities

  • Find out who the 2025 Healthcare Inequalities Clinical Audit Heroes are
  • Signposting to resources relating to healthcare inequalities
  • NEW video (YouTube) / podcast (HQIP’s Spotify channel) – Addressing healthcare inequalities through clinical audit, with NHS England’s Dr Aoife Molloy and HQIP’s Professor Danny Keenan
  • NEW blog article – The value of audit in identifying health inequalities. The National Prostate Cancer Audit (NPCA) explains how data is helping to identify multiple inequalities in diagnosis and treatment
  • NEW case study – Embedding health inequality assessment within routine clinical audit (West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust)
  • Healthcare Inequalities Lunch & Learn, hosted by NQICAN with HQIP’s Professor Danny Keenan, and featuring the Healthcare Inequalities award announcement. Presentation slides and video recording
  • Webinar and Q&A – Better cardiovascular care through data: how to use the CVDPREVENT audit and Data & Improvement Tool to support CVD care and tackle healthcare inequalities, with CVDPREVENT’s Dr. Peter Green, GP and Clinical Lead; Liz Corteville, QI Lead, NHS Benchmarking Network; and Dr Veena Raleigh, Senior Fellow, Policy, The King’s Fund. Presentation slides and video recording (also available as a podcast)

Influencing Change

  • Find out who the 2025 Influencing Change Clinical Audit Heroes are
  • Signposting to resources relating to influencing change
  • Influencing Change Lunch & Learn, hosted by NQICAN with Sam Riley, Making Data Count at NHS England, and featuring the Influencing Change award announcement. Presentation slides and video recording
  • Webinar and Q&A – Data-Driven Improvements in Maternity Care: A Regional Medical Director’s Perspective, with NHS England’s Dr Edward Morris and HQIP Associate Director Tina Strack. Presentation slides and video recording (also available as a podcast)

Efficiencies & Impact

Clinical Audit Heroes Awards 2025

As always, this campaign centred around the Clinical Audit Heroes Awards. If you would like to find out more about the 2025 awards and winners, then head over to the Clinical Audit Heroes Awards 2025 dedicated webpage to find out all you need to know.

Past campaigns

Find out more about previous Clinical Audit Awareness Weeks and Clinical Audit Heroes Awards: