#CAAW25: Key resources on Influencing Change in Healthcare

Published: 05 Jun 2025

As part of Clinical Audit Awareness Week (#CAAW25), which is designed to share the value of clinical audit and quality improvement in improving patient outcomes, we are signposting to useful resources from HQIP, the clinical audit community and the wider healthcare sector relating to influencing change and improvement in healthcare:

• Clinical audit helps identify areas for improvement in patient care and outcomes by comparing current clinical practice to evidenced based standards. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) are experts in evidence-based best practice who consider both clinical effectiveness and value for money when evaluating new health technologies and producing guidance for healthcare practitioners to deliver the best care.
• All NCAPOP projects aim to have a positive impact on patient care and the national, system, local and public key impacts are reported on each year. The 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020 and 2019 compendium of NCAPOP impact reports can all be found here, along with in-depth reports on specific projects up to 2025.
• To aid local quality improvement (QI), HQIP have reshaped NCAPOP outputs to include tools to support this at a trust level. A QI guide has also been created to signpost healthcare services to a broad range of QI tools and advice on how to implement them. Further to this, is an information governance in local quality improvement guide.
• Another NHS England programme designed to improve patient care is Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT). By undertaking an in-depth review of specialities along with a broad data gathering and analysis exercise, they are able to highlight both underperformance and excellence of individual trusts. The GIRFT team then supports trusts through an implementation phase of report recommendations that tackle unwarranted variation and lead to improved productivity, efficiency, and capacity.

In addition, the following resources from HQIP are also useful:

• Influencing Change case study from the winner of the 2024 Clinical Audit Hero award, Improving Diabetic Foot Infection Outcomes (Diabetic Foot Infection Team, Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals): hqip.org.uk/news/influencing-change-case-study.
• Article: In Avoiding ‘lost in translation’, Jill Stoddart, Director of Operations (National Clinical Audit and Patient Outcome Programme) at HQIP, discusses how you can use national healthcare data to support meaningful change – pdf (article on pages 14-18).
• Case study on a 2023 Clinical Audit Awareness Week winning project from Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust on using data from the National Clinical Audit Benchmarking (NCAB) site to provide a single place to access and evaluate national audit and registry data 24/7 – Influencing Change CUH 2023 case study.
• Case study on a 2023 Clinical Audit Awareness Week winning project from Cambridgeshire Community Services on their Peer-to-Peer clinical record keeping auditing programme – Influencing Change CCS 2023 case study.

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Clinical Audit Awareness Week, featuring the Clinical Audit Heroes awards

There is a packed agenda of events and activities across the week of 2-6 June 2025 – everything is FREE, but please note that you will need to register in advance for live events:

• Thurs 5 June, 2.15–3.00pm: Webinar – Data-Driven Improvements in Maternity Care: A Regional Medical Director’s Perspective. Register here
• Fri 5 June, 10–11am: Webinar –Clinical Audit Heroes Commendation Awards, with presentations by winning projects that 1) use NCAPOP data to drive healthcare improvements, and 2) communicate effectively. Register here

Who are the Clinical Audit Heroes? There is also a series of daily Lunch & Learn events, hosted by N-QI-CAN, on each of the Clinical Audit Heroes awards main categories from 2-6 June 2025 (registration required). The winners these awards are announced at these events; while two new commendation awards are announced at this event on Friday 6th June.

Further information: Clinical Audit Awareness Week.

Don’t miss out!

To find out about all award winners, resources and events relating to #CAAW25, subscribe to HQIP’s mailing list (you will normally receive two emails per month). You can also follow HQIP on X, and on LinkedIn, where information will be posted daily from 2-6 June (look out for and use #CAAW25). And don’t forget to join in the fun by sharing online, using #CAAW25!

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