HQIP’s impact in 2024-25 – annual report

Published: 03 Dec 2025

The 2024-25 HQIP Trustees’ Report and Accounts has been published. Focusing on our activities from 1 April 2024 to 31 May 2025, it shares our vision, achievements and a financial update, as well as highlights of our impact on healthcare improvement.

“There is a moral obligation to use the data that is already available, for the benefit of patients” Phil, NHS patient,” HQIP patient representative

We are proud to work with a multitude of others across healthcare to deliver our vision of improved health outcomes for everyone through evidence-driven healthcare. By running the largest suite of national clinical audits, outcome reviews and registries in the UK, we make high quality data on a wide range of clinical disciplines available to all; an essential tool for supporting efficiencies, reducing inequalities and, importantly, improving patient care and outcomes.

Highlights for the year 2024-25 include:

  • Impact of clinical audit in neonatal care – In just four years, the use of Deferred Cord Clamping (DCC) for preterm babies (as promoted by the National Neonatal Audit Programme, NNAP) rose from less than 29% in 2020 to almost 70% in 2023.
  • The importance of data sharing from a patient perspective – For patient representatives, contributing to our Data Access Request Group (DARG), is both
    meaningful and rewarding: “I believe that data provides a sound rationale for why we offer care in the way we do…I joined DARG to make sure that it is used primarily for the benefit of patients,” Phil, a DARG representative and long-time NHS patient.
  • How patient voice supports improvement in respiratory care – Find out how commissioned National Respiratory Audit Programme (NRAP) works with patients on an on-going basis to identify improvements that they themselves have prioritised – which, in turn, leads to meaningful changes to care.
  • Audit data helps to close the gap in maternity care – A landmark retrospective study demonstrated how national clinical audit data can lead to better outcomes in maternity care, highlighting the critical importance of these programmes.

Read in full: We hope that you will take a moment to read our report, and find out more about how the data and insights commissioned by HQIP have supported change that has a real impact on patient outcomes.