Latest news: February 2025 eBulletin

27 Feb 2025

February’s edition of HQIP’s eBulletin is available now. It features the most recent clinical audit and quality improvement updates, including:

• Resources published in February
• Job opportunity: Project Manager
• Blog: The role of clinical audit and registries in delivering NHS priorities
• Clinical Audit Awareness Week 2025 – toolkit and launch event
• Tender: Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Audit (CVDPREVENT)
• Focusing on procurement for improvement – new blog, podcast and more

Read the eBulletin here.

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Job opportunity

27 Feb 2025

Project Manager

The post-holder will provide proactive project management input across multiple projects within the programme. The Project Manager will ensure that the commissioning and contract management run smoothly. The role is varied and requires the successful candidate to undertake a range of duties to support:

• commissioning of new and existing audits and outcome review programmes
• contract management of providers to deliver these activities
• development of internal systems and processes to support programme-wide activities including reporting, guidance and policies
• management of the standard reporting procedure leading up to publication of outputs
• stakeholder engagement
• the smooth running of projects and act as a key liaison point for each provider throughout the duration of their contract.

Further information                                               Find out more, including a job description and details of how to apply: https://www.hqip.org.uk/work-for-us/project-manager-4/ CVs sent without a completed application form will not be accepted.

Clinical Audit Awareness Week 2025 – Promotional Toolkit

27 Feb 2025

We recently announced the return of Clinical Audit Awareness Week #CAAW25, featuring the Clinical Audit Heroes Awards (2 – 6 June 2025). While it is hosted by HQIP in collaboration with N-QI-CAN, it is the clinical audit, quality improvement and wider healthcare communities (and the multitude of events and activities that you organise), that make this event a success – so here’s more about how you can get involved. To support #CAAW25 activities in your organisation, we have created a free toolkit of resources you can download and share (further resources will be added over the course of #CAAW25, so do check back for updates). This includes:

• Event posters
• An email signature
• Social media headers and posts
• Thank-you cards.

Go to the toolkit resources page to see what’s available: #CAAW25 toolkit Remember, you can also share news about the activities you’re running by using this hashtag on social media: #CAAW25.

#CAAW25 LAUNCH EVENT on 12 March, 12:30 – 1:00 PM – REGISTER NOW!

You can find out how to get involved in #CAAW25, including details about the Clinical Audit Heroes Awards, at a short online launch event. Please register in advance by clicking here. (It only takes two minutes to complete the form.) Further information on the wider Clinical Audit Awareness Week 2025 campaign can be found on our dedicated #CAAW25 page.

HQIP named trusted partner in YPO’s Consultancy+ Framework

25 Feb 2025

As a long-established not-for-profit dedicated to improving healthcare outcomes for all, HQIP provides bespoke, expert support in quality improvement, clinical audit, patient engagement, and value-based procurement – helping commissioners, providers, and policymakers drive real change. With HQIP now an approved partner on YPO’s Consultancy+ framework, healthcare organisations can quickly and compliantly access our expertise – ensuring faster, more effective improvements in care. In addition to being a trusted partner in YPO’s Consultancy+ framework, HQIP is also a named supplier on the CQC Research and Evaluation Framework, providing expertise in;

• Lot 4: Safety and improvement in health and social care
• Lot 7: Involving people in health and social care and understanding their experiences.

So whether a healthcare organisation needs support with patient engagement, transformation strategy, improvement training, or value-based procurement support – HQIP’s proven expertise across multiple areas of quality improvement can now be accessed more conveniently.

Want to explore how HQIP can support your healthcare improvement goals?

Discover more about our services or get in touch for an informal chat with our expert team at workwithus@hqip.org.uk.

Tender: cardiovascular disease prevention

14 Feb 2025

Applications closing date: 21 March 2025 12:00

HQIP is seeking to commission an organisation that will support the delivery of the Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Audit (CVDPREVENT): Workstream 3. The programme will initially be delivered for NHS-funded care in England but may later extend to include Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Jersey, Isle of Man, Guernsey and other Devolved Nations/ Crown Dependencies. Further details can be found on HQIP’s tenders webpage.

Clinical Audit Awareness Week 2025 – Launch event on 12 March

14 Feb 2025

We are delighted to announce the return of Clinical Audit Awareness Week (#CAAW25), which will take place from 2-6 June 2025.

To launch this year’s #CAAW25, we are holding a short online event on Wednesday 12 March, 12:30 – 1:00 pm. This will include a presentation by Professor Danny Keenan (HQIP Medical Director) and Vicky Patel (Chair of N-QI-CAN), who will talk about the impact of clinical audit and quality improvement, as well as details of how to get involved in this year’s campaign and awards.

Click here to register for this event in advance. (It only takes two minutes to complete the registration.)

What is Clinical Audit Awareness Week (#CAAW25)?

#CAAW25 is a national campaign designed to share and celebrate the impact of clinical audit and quality improvement in healthcare, and plays an important part in promoting the value of this work across healthcare.

Run in collaboration with the National Quality Improvement (incl. Clinical Audit) Network (N-QI-CAN), this year’s campaign will again centre around the Clinical Audit Heroes Awards. Further information on the awards, and on the wider #CAAW25 campaign and events, will be available in future HQIP eBulletins, on social media (follow @HQIP and @NQICAN on X and HQIP on LinkedIn), and posted to our dedicated Clinical Audit Awareness Week and Clinical Audit Heroes Awards webpages.

We look forward to seeing you at the #CAAW25 launch event on 12 March!

New resources published February 2025

13 Feb 2025

We are pleased to announce that the following new resources from HQIP-commissioned audits and programmes have been published. They include reports, infographics, data and other outputs to support quality improvement in healthcare:

• Child health – juvenile idiopathic arthritis report – National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death (NCEPOD)
• Suicide and safety in mental health report – National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Safety in Mental Health (NCISH)
• Early intervention in psychosis provision report – National Clinical Audit of Psychosis (NCAP)

Further data

In addition to the above reports, the following data have been released by HQIP-commissioned programmes:

• Perinatal mortality – MBRRACE Maps and Tables have been updated with 2023 data: https://timms.le.ac.uk/mbrrace-uk-perinatal-mortality/data-viewer/
• Prostate cancer – The latest quarterly data from the NPCA has been released: www.npca.org.uk/reports

These reports are available to view and download using the links above, while summaries about all of these reports can be read online here.

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Tender: Perioperative care

3 Feb 2025

Applications closing date: 3 March 2025 12:00 (new date)

HQIP is seeking to commission an organisation that will support the delivery of the National Clinical Audit of Perioperative Care (NCAPC). The programme will initially be delivered for NHS-funded care in England and publicly funded care in Jersey but may later extend to include other Devolved Nations/ Crown Dependencies. Further details can be found on HQIP’s tenders webpage.