Clinical Audit Awareness Week 2025

Clinical Audit Awareness Week (#CAAW25) is here!  You are invited to participate in a packed agenda of events and activities (run in collaboration with N-QI-CAN), across the week of 2-6 June 2025. Everything is FREE, but please note that you will need to register in advance for some live events where indicated…

Resources & updates

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 – 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
  • 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
  • NEW blog article – My Data, My Health (Patient engagement in data access), featuring patient members of HQIP’s Data Access Request Group
  • Online Lunch & Learn – Patient & Public Involvement (PPI), 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.

Still to come – what’s on

Wednesday 4 June 2025

  • 9.30am: Signposting to resources on healthcare inequalities on HQIP’s website
  • 10am: NEW video/podcast released on HQIP’s website – Addressing healthcare inequalities through clinical audit, with NHS England’s Dr Aoife Malloy and HQIP’s Professor Danny Keenan
  • 10.30am: NEW blog article released on HQIP’s website – The value of audit in identifying health inequalities, The National Prostate Cancer Audit (NPCA) explains how their data is helping to identify multiple inequalities in diagnosis and treatment
  • 12.30–1.45pm: Online Lunch & Learn – Healthcare Inequalities, hosted by NQICAN with HQIP’s Professor Danny Keenan, and featuring the Healthcare Inequalities award announcement (use this link to REGISTER IN ADVANCE)
  • 1.45–2.30pm: Webinar and Q&A – Better cardiovascular care through data, 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 (use this link to REGISTER IN ADVANCE)
  • 3pm: NEW case study released on HQIP’s website – Embedding health inequality assessment within routine clinical audit (West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust)

Thursday 5 June 2025

  • 9.30am: Signposting to resources on influencing change on HQIP’s website
  • CANCELLED NHS IMPACT & HQIP webinar and Q&A on Healthcare Improvement – Due to unforeseen circumstances, this event has been cancelled.
  • 12.30–1.45pm: Online Lunch & Learn – Influencing Change, hosted by NQICAN and featuring Sam Riley, Intensive Support Improvement Director at NHS England, as well as the Influencing Change award announcement (use this link to REGISTER IN ADVANCE)
  • 2.15–3.00pm: Webinar – Data-Driven Improvements in Maternity Care: A Regional Medical Director’s Perspective, with NHS England’s Dr Edward Morris CBE FRCOG and HQIP Associate Director Tina Strack (use this link to REGISTER IN ADVANCE)

Friday 6 June 2025

  • 9.30am: Signposting to resources on efficiencies on HQIP’s website
  • 10–11am: Webinar – Clinical Audit Heroes Commendation Awards, with presentations by winning projects that 1) use NCAPOP data to drive healthcare improvements, and 2) communicate effectively (use this link to REGISTER IN ADVANCE)
  • 12.30–1.45pm: Online Lunch & Learn – Efficiencies, hosted by NQICAN and featuring Dr Theresa Barnes, RCP outpatients clinical lead and a consultant rheumatologist and associate medical director at the Countess of Chester Hospital Foundation Trust, as well as the Efficiencies award announcement (use this link to REGISTER IN ADVANCE)
  • 2.30pm: NEW case study released on HQIP’s website – Optimisation of resident doctor rotas in critical care (Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust)

Keep a lookout for more announcements on speakers and further activities on this page (or follow HQIP and N-QI-CAN on X, and HQIP’s LinkedIn page) over the coming weeks! #CAAW25

Get involved – FREE toolkit available

While #CAAW25 is hosted by HQIP in collaboration with N-QI-CAN, it is the clinical audit, quality improvement and wider healthcare communities (and the multitude of events and activities that you organise), that make this campaign a success. To support #CAAW25 activities in your organisation, we have created a free toolkit of resources you can download and share. Go to the toolkit resources page to see what’s available: #CAAW25 toolkit.

Happy event planning – and don’t forget to share details of your activities on social media using #CAAW25!

Clinical Audit Heroes Awards 2025

As always, this event will centre around the Clinical Audit Heroes Awards. Entries for the awards are now CLOSED. If you would like to find out more about the awards, then over to the Clinical Audit Heroes Awards 2025 dedicated webpage to find out all you need to know.

Stay up-to-date

Online: Check this dedicated #CAAW25 webpage for the latest information, as it becomes available.

Newsletter updates: We will share updates in HQIP’s monthly eBulletins, while N-QI-CAN will provide updates via their enewsletter and ‘Forum’ (National Network and Sharing Forum, NNSF).

Social media: You can also follow HQIP and N-QI-CAN on X, and HQIP’s LinkedIn, where information will be posted (look out for and use #CAAW25).

#CAAW25 launch event

Thank you to everyone who came to the #CAAW25 online launch event on Wednesday 12 March. If you missed the event or want to revisit the presentations, you can view the full launch event recording and presentation slides.

Past campaigns

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