First perioperative care audit launched

Published: 03 Oct 2025

HQIP is pleased to share details of a new audit, the National Clinical Audit of Perioperative Care (NCAPC), which will be delivered by the Royal College of Anaesthetists (RCoA).

Perioperative care refers to patient-centred, multidisciplinary and integrated care from the point of consideration of surgery through to full recovery. The NCAPC aims to reduce unwarranted deviation from evidence-based practice in the perioperative pathway, and thereby reduce complications and increase patients’ health-related quality of life. With circa 3.5 million surgical procedures carried out in England and Wales each year, this audit (the first in this field) marks an important step in HQIP’s vision to improve health outcomes for everyone through evidence-driven healthcare.

HQIP has commissioned the Royal College of Anaesthetists to deliver the NCAPC from October 2025, with the first year being used to design the optimal methodology to audit care.

Further information can be found here.