News, events & blogs
Welcome to HQIP's news, events and blogs area. Latest entries are listed below chronologically, and you can use the menus and filters on the left to define your content, or use the search section (top right) for specific searches.

Clinical Audit Awareness Week: Online launch event
Published: 27 Mar 2024
A chance to ‘listen again’ to the recording of the #CAAW24 launch event on March 27th.

Clinical Audit Heroes Awards NOW OPEN!
Published: 26 Mar 2024
Find out more about how to enter this year’s awards and more…

Article: Patient and Public Engagement in practice
Published: 09 Mar 2024
Two award-winning projects, Epilepsy12 and Side-by-Side, talk about their experiences of effective patient engagement.

20 years of the National Joint Registry
Published: 02 Mar 2024
Find out more about the Registry’s interactive reporting tools and the benefits they offer to hospitals.

Latest news: February eBulletin
Published: 01 Mar 2024
Read this eBulletin for the February 2024 round-up of clinical audit news, events and programmes from HQIP and other relevant healthcare organisations.

Blog: In for the long haul
Published: 29 Feb 2024
Vicky Patel, Chair of NQICAN, explores how to take a sustainable approach to clinical audit.

Clinical Audit Awareness Week: Online launch event
Published: 23 Feb 2024
Find out about this year’s award categories and more at an online launch event on 27 March.

Clinical Audit Awareness Week 2024 – Promotional Toolkit
Published: 23 Feb 2024
NOW AVAILABLE: Free toolkit to support you to share your #CAAW24 activities.

New resources published February 2024
Published: 08 Feb 2024
Reports on bowel cancer, testicular torsion, fracture liaison service and mental health have been published.

NHS England Quality Accounts List 2024-25 confirmed and available from HQIP website
Published: 30 Jan 2024
The NHS England Quality Accounts List 2024-25 has been updated and is available here.

Latest news: January eBulletin
Published: 26 Jan 2024
Read this eBulletin for the January 2024 round-up of clinical audit news, events and programmes from HQIP and other relevant healthcare organisations.

Clinical Audit Awareness Week 2024 announced
Published: 25 Jan 2024
We are delighted to announce the return of Clinical Audit Awareness Week (#CAAW24), which will take place from 24-28 June 2024. This national campaign is designed to share and celebrate the impact of clinical audit in healthcare, and plays an important part in promoting the value of this work.

An ′umbrella approach′ to audit: sharing, efficiencies and results
Published: 24 Jan 2024
This article takes a look at The National Cancer Audit Collaborating Centre (NATCAN), an exemplar knowledge-sharing audit, one year on

Healthcare inequalities case study
Published: 15 Jan 2024
Mikaela Wardle, Senior House Officer at Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust, was a commended entry in the Healthcare Inequalities category of the 2023 Clinical Audit Heroes Awards.

New resources published January 2024
Published: 11 Jan 2024
Reports on prostate and oesophago-gastric cancer have been published.

NEW: Outliers guidance 2024
Published: 05 Jan 2024
HQIP is pleased to share our revised guidance, Outliers 2024. The result of extensive consultation with NHS England, the CQC and other stakeholders

NEW Benchmarking data available: National Joint Registry
Published: 04 Jan 2024
Data from the National Joint Registry is now available on the NCAB website.

NEW Benchmarking data available: National Neonatal Audit Programme
Published: 04 Jan 2024
Data from the National Neonatal Audit Programme is now available on the NCAB website.

Latest news: December eBulletin
Published: 20 Dec 2023
Read this eBulletin for the December 2023 round-up of clinical audit news, events and programmes from HQIP and other relevant healthcare organisations.

New resources published December 2023
Published: 14 Dec 2023
Reports on diabetes, pneumonia and child mortality as well as paediatric and perinatal care have been published.