Clinical Audit Awareness Week, 22-26 June 2026

Improving lives with healthcare data

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.

Excellence in Clinical Audit Awards (announcements 22-26 June 2026)

Through a packed programme of events and awards, we were proud to showcase practical examples, innovation, and collaborative projects. Find out more about what took place below:

Note that the recordings and slides for all events are expected to be made available on this website over the next couple of weeks (we will also endeavour to cover some of the questions we weren’t able to answer during the sessions here).

Turning Strategy into Reality (Monday 22 June)

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 the announcement of the Strategic Impact award winners.

Patient Involvement and Care Equity (Tues 23 June)

Morning 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.

Lunchtime Sharing Session, featuring the announcement of the Equity and Patient Involvement award winners.

Afternoon Webinar, focusing on inequalities in maternity care and 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.

Shaping the Future Together: Innovation and Transformation (Wed 24 June)

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.

Patient Safety (Thurs 25 June)

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.

Data-Informed Improvement: From Insight to Impact (Fri 26 June)

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 Webinar, 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.

In addition to the awards announced on a daily basis throughout the week, we were pleased to share the following additional commendations:

Tell us what you think

Please share your feedback about Clinical Audit Awareness Week, the events and activities, or the awards here: www.hqip.org.uk/caaw26-feedback.

Previous campaigns

Find out more about previous campaigns, resources, awards and winners using the links below: