Clinical Audit Awareness Week, 22-26 June 2026

Clinical Audit Awareness Week (#CAAW26) ran from 22-26 June 2026, and was a roaring success; thank you to everyone who took part! Designed to celebrate the critical role of clinical audit and data-driven healthcare improvement, the campaign explored how insight becomes action across five themed days.

Morning Webinar

Featuring:

• Clinical Audit as an Enabler of Value-Based Healthcare; Professor Sally Lewis, Professor of Value in Health Management, Value-based Health and Care Academy, Swansea University; Director of Kintsugi-international 
• Falls and Fragility Fracture Audit Programme (FFFAP) – Data Driven Improvements in Patient Outcomes; Dr Sunil Nedungayil, Senior Clinical Lead, Falls and Fragility Fracture Audit programme (FFFAP), Royal College of Physicians
• Advocacy for Clinical Audit, and Aspirations for an Association for Clinical Audit, Registries and Quality Improvement (ACAR-QI); Dr Iain Smith, Associate Director, Association for Clinical Audit, Registries and Quality Improvement (ACAR-QI), HQIP.

Lunchtime Sharing Session

Featuring:

• Announcement of the Strategic Impact award winners.
• Pathway to Equity: From Barriers to Bridges; Dr Aicha Bouraoui, on behalf of the Adolescent and Young Adult Rheumatology Team, University College London Hospitals
• How Clinical Audit Supports the Delivery of National and Strategic Priorities at a Local Level;Vicky Patel, Clinical Effectiveness Manager, The Rotherham Foundation Trust

Morning Webinar

Lunchtime Sharing Session

Afternoon Maternity & Healthcare Inequalities Webinar

Featuring:

• Paul Gavin, Deputy Director Equalities and Involvement, People and Communities, NHS England, considering what the new health and care landscape means for PPI and the wider experience of healthcare, considering the changes to NHS England and the 10-Year Plan. 
• Anita Sehdev, Youth Voice Advisor from The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, outlining engagement work with children and young people that is shaping national clinical audits. 
• A panel discussion with Paul, Anita, and members of HQIP’s Service User Network (SUN), Bren McInerney, Community Volunteer and SUN member, and Sadia Mir, SUN member and Equality and Diversity Advocate, who will share their lived experience of involvement work in communities and as advocates for healthcare equality.

Featuring:

• Announcement of the Equity and Patient Involvement award winners.
• Reaching the Unreached: Link Workers Transforming Child Mental Health Access in Diverse Communities; Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) Link Worker Team, West London NHS Trust
• Patient Involvement and Care Equity: Improved Outcomes for all; Vicky Patel, Clinical Effectiveness Manager, The Rotherham Foundation Trust

Featuring:

• George Dunn, Project Lead for the National Maternity and Perinatal Audit, and Sarah Fisher, Women’s Health Advocate and Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) Advisor, talking about their work with their Women and Families Involvement Group and how they impact the audit.
• Wendy Olayiwola, National Maternity Lead for Equality, NHSE, talking about her work to drive the national agenda to reduce disparities and improve outcomes in maternity and neonatal services across England.
• A panel discussion featuring MBRRACE-UK representative Nicky Vousden (clinical lecturer and National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit) and four members from HQIP’s Service User Network sharing lived experience as parents and in their wider advocacy work: Meg Hill, Birth Worker; Riham Lotfi, Community Champion; Naomi Rose, Expert by Experience; and Al Richards, Dad and Person from the Global Majority.

Morning Webinar

Featuring:

• Keynote: Sir James Mackey, Chief Executive of NHS England, demonstrating the value placed on clinical audit and evidence-based improvement in supporting the delivery of the NHS 10-Year Plan
• Aspirations of the NJR artificial intelligence analytics strategy: Chris Boulton, Director of Operations, National Joint Registry
• Real World Data to Improve Patient Safety: From Standardisation to Scale and Speed: Professor Daniel Prieto-Alhambra, Professor of Pharmaco- and Device Epidemiology, University of Oxford, NDORMS
• Shaping Innovation through Clinical Audit: Evidencing MedTech Implementation and Patient Impact: Sarah Chessell, Head of Research and Innovation, NHS Dorset; Lead, Dorset Innovation Hub
• Using the National Emergency Laparotomy Audit (NELA) Exponentially Weighted Moving Average (EWMA) Charts to Detect Outlier Mortality: Aiman Al-Eryani, Senior Data Analyst, Royal College of Anaesthetists.

Lunchtime Sharing Session

Featuring:

• The announcement of the Innovation award winners.
• Reproducible Analytical Pipeline for Rapid, Sustained and Statistcally-Sagnificant Improvement in MRSA Admission Screening Compliance; Daniel Weiand, on behalf of the Data Science and Infection Prevention and Control Team, Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals
• Clinical Audit and Innovation; Vicky Patel, Clinical Effectiveness Manager, The Rotherham Foundation Trust

Morning Webinar

Featuring:

• Welcome from today’s Chair: Dr Jacqueline Andrews, Executive Medical Director, Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust and HQIP Trustee
• Using data for safety – A perspective from the Patient Safety Commissioner: Professor Henrietta Hughes OBE, Patient Safety Commissioner
• The role of the National Joint Registry in patient safety: Chris Boulton, Director of Operations, National Joint Registry
• Using national maternity data to drive patient safety improvement: Faith Sheils, Director of Midwifery, Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust
• From incident to improvement: using Epilepsy12 data to commission a safer first seizure pathway: Dr Colin Dunkley, Consultant Paediatrician, Sherwood Forest Hospitals, Epilepsy12 Clinical Lead
• Update from Patient Safety Learning: Clare Wade, Director, Patient Safety Learning.

Lunchtime Sharing Session

Featuring:

• The announcement of the Patient Safety award winners.
• Monitoring Skin Cancer MDT Outcome Compliance; Dr Karisma Sharma, Core Surgical Trainee, and Dr Sonika Nayyar, Dermatology Registrar, Dermatology Department, Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust
• Clinical Audit and Patient Safety; Vicky Patel, Clinical Effectiveness Manager, The Rotherham Foundation Trust

Morning Webinar

Featuring:

• Data-Informed Improvement: From Insight to Impact, Dame Celia Ingham Clark, HQIP Chair and former NHS England Deputy Medical Director
• From Insight to Impact: What CQC and HSSIB Teach Us About Using Audit Data for Improvement, Professor Ted Baker, Chair of Health Services Safety Investigations Body (HSSIB)
• Registry to Results: Aligning with the 10-Year Plan and NICE early value assessment to Improve Outcomes, John McGrath, National Clinical Director, Robotics Registry
• Seeing Through the Patient Lens: Turning Data and Audit Findings into Meaningful Improvement, Kate Cullen, National Paediatric Diabetes Audit (NPDA) patient representative
• Panel Discussion with Ted Baker, John McGrath and Kate Cullen.

Afternoon Session

Featuring:

• Announcement of, and presentation by, the winner(s) of the Evidence into Practice category of the Excellence in Clinical Audit Awards 2026
• From Data to Practice: How Audit Insights Shape Local CAMHS Care, Tom Hunter, Mental Health Nurse and Plymouth CAMHS and Dr Salbu Krishnan, Clinical Lead for South-West CAMHS Eating Disorders, Consultant Eating Disorders and CAMHS Psychiatrist
• Building the National Audit of Eating Disorders (NAED): Barriers, Data Quality, and Impact on Services, Dr Karina Allan and Philippa Nunn, National Audit of Eating Disorders (NAED)
• Winner of the Resident Doctor Showcase 2026, Dr Alexandra Tebbett, Resident Doctor, South Warwickshire University Foundation Trust: Turning Audit into Improved Patient Care.