Communication & Using National Data Heroes 2025 announced

Published: 06 Jun 2025

The winners of the following Clinical Audit Awareness Week new awards for 2025 (Using NCAPOP Data and Communicating for Impact) have been announced! Congratulations to:

Using NCAPOP Data

NCAPOP is the National Clinical Audit and Patient Outcomes Programme (NCAPOP) commissioned by HQIP behalf of the NHS and others

WINNER: Improving Physical Healthcare Audit (Morris ward, Low secure forensic unit – Emmanuel Okoro, Mamun Rahman, Ikenna Agbo, Bernard MacMaddy & Tapankumar Brahmbhatt); Goodmayse Hospital, North East London NHS Foundation Trust

This project was informed by findings from the NCAPOP, particularly national data highlighting the physical health inequalities experienced by individuals with Severe Mental Illness (SMI). These insights underscored the urgency of addressing reduced life expectancy in this population due to preventable physical health conditions. The team used NCAPOP benchmarks to guide the design of the audit, focusing on areas such as cardiovascular risk (QRisk), obesity, smoking, and access to national screening programmes. By comparing local data trends, they identified key service gaps, including limited screening access and delays in specialist referrals, and introduced a range of interventions.

RUNNER-UP: Transforming End of Life Care Quality Improvement Project (Transforming End of Life Care Team); University College London Hospital

NACEL (as a part of NCAPOP) contributed a reliable set of data to build this project on, and also offered comprehensive sequential appraisals to evaluate its performance, thereby transforming and promoting improvements across all aspects of end-of-life care. These include: clinical (recognition of dying, addressing – as well as implementation of – personalised needs, and bereavement services); educational (communication skills teaching focusing on EDI); and leadership-focused in both hospital and community settings, with the unification of Palliative, End Of Life and Supportive Care being the way forward to further improve responsiveness and equity of access.

Communicating for Impact

JOINT WINNER: Implementation of the Cornell Assessment for Paediatric Delirium as a Vital Sign in the Paediatric Post-Anaesthetic Care Unit (Isabel Diez-Martin, Peter Brooks, John Paul & the Paediatric Recovery Team); Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust NHS

This project’s impact was communicated through in-service training, visual prompts in PACU, regular staff huddles, and patient stories that underscored the real-world effects of Emergence Delirium. Presentations were delivered to stakeholders across divisions, to support the tool’s integration into the EMR and standard workflows. It will be presented at BARNA 2025, will be featured during NIHR International Nurses Day with the “Dragon’s Den” competition, and is shortlisted for the APAGBI 2025 conference for oral presentation. It will also be presented at the RIQI event at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. These high-visibility platforms have ensured broad dissemination, promoted cross-site collaboration, and reinforced a cultural shift in how Emergence Delirium is recognised and managed.

JOINT WINNER: National Audit of Care at the End of Life (NACEL)

Communications examples include: A monthly newsletter to 700+ health and social care professionals; three academic publications; and professional presentations delivered at national and international conferences, webinars and meetings. This project also contributed to the palliative care and end of life care roundtable submission of intent for the 10 Year Health Plan, and provided data to the Health and Social Care Committee’s Independent Evaluation of Palliative Care in England. In addition, the NACEL Portal hosts a dynamic, interactive space to share best practice in quality improvement work.

RUNNER-UP: Falls Prevention Improvement Project (Anna Skipper); Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Outcomes have been shared in multiple forums including best practice on the National Falls Prevention Practitioners group on NHS Futures platform. The project’s Falls Lead presented at the 2023 National Falls Prevention Summit: Reducing Inpatient Falls and Harm, and collaborated with AGE UK Norwich to raise awareness of the value of co-produced, patient stories highlighting patient pathways across the system, and realities of missed healthcare opportunities. The judges were particularly impressed with ‘Alice’s Story’, a video highlighting data, experiences, and stories of local Norwich residents, which has been widely shared online and was presented at Norfolk and Waveney Integrated Care System events and other forums.

Clinical Audit Heroes awards

These awards are two of seven categories in this year’s Clinical Audit Heroes Awards. The winners of each main category award are announced at a series of daily Lunch & Learn events, hosted by N-QI-CAN, on each of the award topics from 2-6 June 2025; while these two new commendation awards were announced at an event on Friday 6th June. The recordings of these events, for those who wish to listen again (in addition to news of all the winners and a range of other events and activities) will be available on the Clinical Audit Awareness Week webpage.

Further information about the awards: Clinical Audit Heroes awards.

Clinical Audit Awareness Week

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