Clinical Audit Awareness Week 2025 round-up
Published: 09 Jun 2025
Run in collaboration with N-QI-CAN, Clinical Audit Awareness Week (#CAAW25) took place from 2-6 June 2025. THANK YOU to everyone who took part! Find below a summary of this year’s campaign, including award winners, resources, event recordings and more…
Clinical Audit Heroes Awards
The Clinical Audit Heroes Awards are an essential part of #CAAW25, shining a light on exemplar audits and projects that support improvement in healthcare. This year there were seven categories, the winners of which can be found using the links below:
- Patient Safety
- Patient & Public Involvement (PPI)
- Healthcare Inequalities
- Influencing Change
- Efficiencies
- Communicating for Impact
- Using Data from the NCAPOP
All awards categories: A summary of all award winners can be found on the dedicated 2025 Clinical Audit Heroes Awards page.
#CAAW25 resources
Clinical Audit Awareness Week is an opportunity to highlight excellence in clinical audit and quality improvement, supporting improved healthcare. Find below a summary of the resources resulting from HQIP’s activities during the week of 2-6 June 2025.
Patient Safety
- NEW video (YouTube) – Improving sepsis care through clinical audit (also available as a podcast)
- NEW case study showcasing how Haywood Community Hospital is using clinical audit to strengthen sepsis recognition, escalation and treatment
- Patient Safety Lunch & Learn – Video recording (YouTube) and presentation slides
- Signposting to key resources relating to patient safety
Patient & Public Involvement (PPI)
- NEW video (YouTube) on Patient Advocacy in Healthcare (also available as a podcast)
- NEW video (YouTube) on Shared Decision Making (also available as a podcast)
- NEW blog article – My Data, My Health (Patient engagement in data access), featuring patient members of HQIP’s Data Access Request Group
- Patient & Public Involvement (PPI) Lunch & Learn – Presentation slides; the recording will be shared in due course
- Signposting to resources relating to Patient & Public Involvement (PPI)
Healthcare Inequalities
- NEW video (YouTube) / podcast (HQIP’s Spotify channel) – Addressing healthcare inequalities through clinical audit
- NEW blog article – The value of audit in identifying health inequalities, from the National Prostate Cancer Audit (NPCA)
- NEW case study – Embedding health inequality assessment within routine clinical audit (West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust)
- Healthcare Inequalities Lunch & Learn – Presentation slides and video recording
- Webinar Better cardiovascular care through data, with CVDPREVENT and The King’s Fund. Presentation slides and video recording (podcast)
- Signposting to resources relating to healthcare inequalities
Influencing Change
- Influencing Change Lunch & Learn – Presentation slides and video recording
- Webinar Data-Driven Improvements in Maternity Care, with NHS England’s Dr Edward Morris – Presentation slides and video recording (podcast)
- Signposting to resources relating to influencing change
Efficiencies & Impact
- Commendation awards winners event – Presentation slides and video recording (podcast)
- NEW case study – Optimisation of resident doctor rotas in critical care (Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust)
- Efficiencies Lunch & Learn – Presentation slides; the video recording will be available in due course
- Signposting to resources relating to efficiencies in healthcare
More about #CAAW25: For everything about #CAAW25, head over to the Clinical Audit Awareness Week page.