Clinical Audit Heroes Awards 2025

Who are the 2025 Clinical Audit Heroes?

Patient Safety

  • WINNER: Neonatal Occupational Therapy to Improve Positioning Practices (Sarah Willis); Coventry & Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust
  • JOINT RUNNER-UP: Safety Planning Audit in Liaison Psychiatry 2023-2024 (Mosab Elbasuny & Thomas Manders); Liaison Psychiatry-Torbay Hospital, Devon Partnership Trust
  • JOINT RUNNER-UP: In-utero transfer (Dr Swasti Jain, Dr Subhasree Biswas, Mr Pradumna Jamjute, Claire Winthrop); West Cumberland Hospital, North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Trust

Find out more about the Patient Safety winners.

Patient & Public Involvement (PPI)

  • JOINT WINNER: State of the Nation report 2024 (Audit of early intervention in psychosis provision in England and Wales 2022/23 and 2023/24), Service User and Carer Reference Group; National Clinical Audit of Psychosis (NCAP)
  • JOINT WINNER: Triangle of Care, Carer Engagement (Lisa Wilson); Telford & Wrekin Community Mental Health, Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
  • RUNNER-UP: Welcome Standards (Patient Experience Team); University Hospitals Sussex

Find out more about the Patient & Public Involvement (PPI) winners.

Coming soon…

The remaining awards will be announced at online events during #CAAW25 (2-6 June 2025) – use the links below to REGISTER IN ADVANCE:

  • Healthcare Inequalities – Lunch & Learn, Wed 4 June (12.30-1.45pm)
  • Influencing Change – Lunch & Learn, Thurs 5 June (12.30-1.45pm)
  • Efficiencies – Lunch & Learn, Fri 6 June (12.30-1.45pm)
  • NCAPOP Commendation (celebrating projects that use National Clinical Audit Patient Outcomes Programme (NCAPOP) data to drive healthcare improvements) and Communicating for Impact Commendation (Recognising excellence in effectively communicating project impact) – Commendation event, Fri 6 June (10-11am)

#CAAW25 – what’s on

Discover the exciting line-up of events and activities taking place during Clinical Audit Awareness Week 2025 (#CAAW25, 2-6 June 2025), and how to register and join in here.

Get involved

#CAAW25 toolkit: You can also download a free promotional toolkit of digital resources to support #CAAW25 activities in your organisation. Go to the toolkit resources page to see what’s available: #CAAW25 toolkit. Information on the wider #CAAW25 campaign and all other activities can be found here: Clinical Audit Awareness Week.

Stay up-to-date

You can stay up-to-date with the latest on these awards, and the wider campaign, as follows:

Online: Award announcements can be found on this page, while details on how to get involved in Clinical Audit Awareness Week can be found on the dedicated #CAAW25 webpage.

Newsletter updates: We will share updates in HQIP’s monthly eBulletins (subscribe to find out the latest).

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

Past awards

If you want to find out about past winners of the Clinical Audit Heroes Awards, see below:

To find out about the 2024 Clinical Audit Heroes Awards, click here.

To find out about the 2023 Clinical Audit Heroes Awards, click here.