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Response to YEARN audit network request for information on NCAPOP
Published: 09 Mar 2017
Following discussions with the YEARN clinical audit network group, and its requests for more information about HQIP, its work and the NCAPOP, this paper was created in January 2017.
Diabetes inpatient audit: Hypoglycaemic episodes decline
Published: 07 Mar 2017
Hypoglycaemic episodes in hospitals has decreased, according to NaDIA 2016 report.
Report highlights need for early intervention for diabetic foot ulcers
Published: 02 Mar 2017
A report published today finds that early intervention is important in the management of diabetic foot disease.
Call for case studies demonstrating best practice in QI
Published: 15 Feb 2017
Do you have any examples of Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) and best practice in quality improvement to showcase? Would you like to see your achievements highlighted on the HQIP website?
Cardiac Rhythm Management Audit shows variation in implantation rates for pacemakers and defibrillators, nationally and in comparison to Europe
Published: 14 Feb 2017
The National Cardiac Rhythm Management (CRM) Audit data suggests that within the UK there continues to be variation in the rates of pacemaker and defibrillator implants in both the UK and Western Europe.
From NCAPOP to British Society of Gastroenterology led IBD Registry
Published: 10 Feb 2017
The Inflammatory Bowel Disease National Clinical Audit Project comes to an end on 28 February 2017. Following numerous successful rounds of clinical audit which supported clinical teams to achieve significant improvement against NICE standards, NHS England and the Welsh Government took the decision to decommission IBD as part of the National Clinical Audit and Patient Outcomes Programme (NCAPOP), managed by HQIP.
Report shows regional variations in diabetes care
Published: 31 Jan 2017
The National Diabetes Audit 2015-16, published by NHS Digital in partnership with Diabetes UK, found that the percentage of patients with Type 1 diabetes achieving NICE-recommended treatment targets for glucose control, blood pressure and cholesterol varied from 11 per cent in some CCGs/LHBs to 34 per cent in others.
Myocardial ischaemia: 9/10 of heart attack cases seen on time MINAP audit finds
Published: 30 Jan 2017
999-to-treatment times improve by almost 40% in the last decade, according to national clinical audit report.
Huge Improvement in Heart Attack Treatment, 9/10 of cases seen on time
Published: 27 Jan 2017
The latest Myocardial Ischaemia National Audit Project (MINAP) report published today, has shown significant improvements in key indicators for heart attack patients, and also highlights the serious impact of smoking on the onset of heart attack.
Latest National COPD Audit Programme report highlights concerning levels of hospital readmissions for people suffering with chronic lung conditions in England
Published: 26 Jan 2017
Today’s report from The Royal College of Physicians shows that 43% of patients admitted for hospital treatment of COPD were readmitted at least once in the three months following discharge. This represents a considerable increase from the 33% readmission rate reported in 2008.
Failure to integrate physical and mental healthcare by hospitals means patients with mental health issues get poor care, NCEPOD report says
Published: 25 Jan 2017
The failure by general hospitals to integrate physical and mental healthcare services is leading to poor care for patients with a physical illness who also happen to have a mental health condition, the latest report from the National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death (NCEPOD) reveals.
Lung cancer: 7% increase in one-year survival, clinical audit reports
Published: 25 Jan 2017
Latest annual study from national lung cancer audit reports rises in survivorship
Variability in testing exposing high risk patients to chronic kidney disease, national clinical audit finds
Published: 16 Jan 2017
The National CKD Audit, the first of its kind, reports wide variations in diagnostic testing among patients at high risk of developing CKD, such as people with diabetes and heart disease.
Can the Prime Minister’s ‘shared society’ really tackle inadequacies in young people’s mental health care?
Published: 13 Jan 2017
As a junior doctor in child and adolescent psychiatry, I was very pleased to hear Theresa May recognise the need to improve the lives for the one in ten children in Britain suffering from a diagnosable mental health condition.
90% of men receiving curative treatment for prostate cancer say their care was very good
Published: 13 Dec 2016
Ninety percent of men who had surgery or radiotherapy to cure their prostate cancer in the English NHS rated their care as 8 or above on a scale ranging from 0 (“very poor”) to 10 (“very good”) according to the third annual report of the National Prostate Cancer Audit (NPCA).
Survival rates for patients receiving lung cancer surgery rise as number of operations increase
Published: 05 Dec 2016
The new report published by the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) and the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery in Great Britain & Ireland (SCTS), demonstrates further improvements in survival rates following lung cancer surgery.
MBRRACE-UK Maternal Mortality Surveillance study highlights heart disease risk for pregnant women
Published: 02 Dec 2016
The latest Confidential Enquiry into Maternal Deaths from the national collaborative programme studying maternal and infant deaths, MBRRACE-UK, commissioned by the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership shows that in 2012-14, 8.5 women per 100,000 died during pregnancy or shortly after giving birth. The report, ‘Saving Lives, Improving Mothers’ Care’, highlights that two in every 100,000 died from heart disease, which is the leading cause of women dying in pregnancy or the early weeks after childbirth. There has been no significant change in the overall national maternal death rate since the last report.
NHS patients needing vital surgery to prevent a major stroke are ‘not being operated on quickly enough’
Published: 30 Nov 2016
Hundreds of patients are not having vital surgery quickly enough which could prevent them from having a major stroke, the Royal College of Surgeons and Vascular Society have warned today.
Latest annual Sentinel Stroke National Audit Programme (SSNAP) report reveals further improvement in stroke care is needed.
Published: 29 Nov 2016
The third annual SSNAP report reveals that despite stroke care continuing to improve year on year, much more work is still required to ensure that all patients have access to high quality care regardless of where they live or when they are admitted to hospital.
Stroke care: Number of hospital sites with unfilled consultant vacancies rises by 14% over two years.
Published: 28 Nov 2016
The Sentinel Stroke National Audit Programme (SSNAP) launches findings from its 2016 acute organisational audit showing that the way that care is provided for people with acute stroke continues to improve with more provision of weekend therapy and better access to early supported discharge (ESD) teams.