Leadership vacancy: HQIP Medical Director
Published: 23 Oct 2025
HQIP recently announced that Professor Danny Keenan will be retiring from his role as Medical Director in the new year. Over more than a decade, Danny has played a pivotal role in advancing HQIP’s mission to drive quality improvement across the NHS through clinical audit and national registries. Find out more about his outstanding leadership and impact at HQIP and beyond in this article.
We now begin the process of recruiting Danny’s successor, to ensure continuity of clinical leadership and build on the strong foundation he has established.
We are seeking an outstanding Medical Director to provide senior clinical leadership across our national portfolio of clinical audits, confidential enquiries, and registries. This high-profile role will shape the way data is used to improve patient outcomes, strengthen multidisciplinary leadership, and represent the voice of clinicians and patients in national discussions.
The successful candidate will work alongside our Chief Executive, Chris Gush, and the Board of Trustees to provide credible and visible clinical leadership for HQIP programmes and partners. Already having extensive national networks and credibility across the NHS and professional bodies, they will build further on these to create strong partnerships with NHS England, Department of Health and Social Care, Royal Colleges, regulators, and patient organisations.
This is an exceptional opportunity for an experienced and credible clinical leader to influence national practice, champion improvement, and help shape the future of audit and registry programmes.
The role is part time (two days per week) for a fixed term of three years and the closing date for applications is 11pm 30 November.