Clinical Audit Awareness Week, 22-26 June 2026

29 Jan 2026

Improving lives with healthcare data.

Clinical Audit Awareness Week aims to improve and save lives by promoting and celebrating the critical role of clinical audit and data-driven healthcare improvement.

Back for 2026, this campaign will run across five themed days, combining new themes with many valued activities from previous years. It will explore how insight becomes action, showcasing practical examples, innovation, and collaboration to support improvement across healthcare. The five themed days include:

Turning Strategy into Reality
Patient Involvement and Care Equity: Improved Outcomes for All
Shaping the Future Together: Innovation and Transformation
Patient Safety: Using Data and Audit to Reduce Harm
Data-Informed Improvement: From Insight to Impact.

The 2026 campaign will feature NQICAN lunch and learns, engaging events, and awards recognising excellence in clinical audit and data-informed improvement.

Chris Gush, HQIP Chief Executive, said: “Clinical audits, registries, and data-driven improvement are essential to advancing healthcare quality and patient safety. Clinical Audit Awareness Week 2026 will proudly highlight their impact, showcase success stories, and promote a culture of transparency and learning. We encourage organisations, clinicians and teams to get involved, share their work, and celebrate audit to help drive continuous improvement in patient care and outcomes.”

Further information about the themes can be found on our website.

Excellence in Clinical Audit Awards: Opening 16 March

New for 2026, reflecting the professionalism, impact, and high standards demonstrated by recipients, the Clinical Audit Heroes Awards are being renamed the Excellence in Clinical Audit Awards.

The awards will link to the #CAAW26 daily themes and will also continue to include two additional Commendations: Using Data from the NCAPOP and Communicating for Impact.

Entries open 16 March and close 17 April. Full category details and criteria will be shared at the end of February.

Stay up to date

Receive more information about award categories coming at the end of February via our regular communications channels:

Newsletter updates: Make sure you are subscribed to HQIP’s monthly eBulletins, where you’ll hear first what’s new.
Social media: Follow HQIP on LinkedIn, BlueSky and X for regular campaign updates, using #CAAW26. Please tag HQIP and #CAAW26 to share your activities with us too.
HQIP website: Keep checking back on HQIP’s website for the latest updates, activities, and ways to get involved.