Clinical Audit Awareness Week 2025

NEW Looking for the 2026 Clinical Audit Awareness Week campaign? Find out more about #CAAW26 here and the Excellence in Clinical Audit Awards 2026.

Clinical Audit Awareness Week 2025

Clinical Audit Awareness Week 2025 (#CAAW25) took place 2-6 June 2025. Clinical Audit Awareness Week, which features the Clinical Audit Heroes Awards, is a national campaign to promote and celebrate the benefits of clinical audit and quality improvement.

Thank you to everyone who contributed to #CAAW25; it’s your engagement every year that makes this national campaign so successful! Find out more about all the award winners, resources and activities that took place below.

Patient Safety

Find out who the 2025 Patient Safety Clinical Audit Heroes were
Video (YouTube) on Improving sepsis care through clinical audit, with Chair of HQIP’s Trustee Board, Celia Ingham Clark, and HQIP’s National Medical Director’s Clinical Fellow, Dr Ollie Burton
Case study showcasing how Haywood Community Hospital is using clinical audit to strengthen sepsis recognition, escalation and treatment
Patient Safety Lunch & Learn (2 June 2025), 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
Signposting to key resources relating to patient safety

Patient & Public Involvement (PPI)

Find out who the 2025 Patient & Public Involvement (PPI) Clinical Audit Heroes were
Case study – PPI JOINT WINNER: Carer Engagement Through Triangle of Care (Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin Community Mental Health)
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)
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)
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 (3 June 2025), hosted by NQICAN with HQIP’s Head of Patient Engagement Kim Rezel, and featuring the PPI award announcement. Video recording and presentation slides
Signposting to resources relating to Patient & Public Involvement (PPI)

Healthcare Inequalities

Find out who the 2025 Healthcare Inequalities Clinical Audit Heroes were
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
Event video – 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)
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
Case study – Embedding health inequality assessment within routine clinical audit (West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust)
Healthcare Inequalities Lunch & Learn (4 June 2025), hosted by NQICAN with HQIP’s Professor Danny Keenan, and featuring the Healthcare Inequalities award announcement. Presentation slides and video recording
Signposting to resources relating to healthcare inequalities

Influencing Change

Find out who the 2025 Influencing Change Clinical Audit Heroes were
Case study – Influencing Change WINNER: Using audit to improve end of life care (University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust)
Case study – Influencing Change RUNNER-UP: Using audit to improve Post-Covid Syndrome care (East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust)
Influencing Change Lunch & Learn (5 June 2025), 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)
Signposting to resources relating to influencing change

Efficiencies & Impact

Find out who the 2025 Efficiencies Clinical Audit Heroes were
Case study – Optimisation of resident doctor rotas in critical care (Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust)
Case study – Efficiencies WINNER: Improving postnatal contraception uptake (King’s College Hospital, London)
Efficiencies Lunch & Learn, hosted by NQICAN and featuring Dr Theresa Barnes, Royal College of Physicians (RCP), as well as the Efficiencies award announcement. Presentation slides; recording
Signposting to resources relating to efficiencies in healthcare
Find out who the 2025 Communicating for Impact Clinical Audit Heroes were
Find out who the 2025 Using Data from the NCAPOP Clinical Audit Heroes were
Clinical Audit Heroes Awards 2025 COMMENDATIONS winners webinar. Presentation slides and video recording (also available as a podcast)