Our programmes
HQIP’s national improvement programmes by topic, including clinical audits, outcome reviews and registries.
Please note that some programmes fall under more than one category.
Cancer
National Clinical Audit
Measures the quality and outcomes of care for people diagnosed for the first time with bowel cancer in NHS hospitals in England and Wales.
National Clinical Audit
Evaluates patterns of care and outcomes for people diagnosed with kidney cancer in England and Wales.
National Clinical Audit
Strives to raise standards across all NHS hospitals in England and Wales for patients with lung cancer.
National Clinical Audit
Measures the quality and outcomes of care for people diagnosed with oesophageal or gastric (OG) cancer in NHS hospitals in England and Wales.
National Clinical Audit
Evaluates patterns of care and outcomes, and reports on diagnosis, treatment and outcomes, for men diagnosed with prostate cancer in England and Wales.
National Clinical Audit
A national centre of excellence that is home to ten national cancer audits in England and Wales.
National Clinical Audit
Focuses on the care that patients receive for metastatic (secondary) breast cancer in England and Wales.
National Clinical Audit
Reports on all patients newly diagnosed with primary breast cancer (stages 0 to 3) in NHS hospitals in England and Wales.
National Clinical Audit
Analyses data looking into the diagnosis and treatment of those with Non-Hodgkinlymphoma.
National Clinical Audit
Aims to improve care in England and Wales, and deliver better results, for those with ovarian cancer.
National Clinical Audit
Helping to accelerate national efforts to improve the care and treatment of patients diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
Cardiovascular
National Clinical Audit
Aims to support professionally-led quality improvement in primary care for the prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in England.
National Clinical Audit, Registry
Measures the quality and outcomes of care for patients who undergo major vascular surgery in NHS hospitals.
Diabetes
National Clinical Audit
Assesses the quality of care provided to children and young people living with diabetes who attend paediatric diabetes services across England, Wales and Jersey.
End of life care
National Clinical Audit
National comparative audit of the quality and outcomes of care experienced by the dying person, and those important to them, during the last admission leading to death in England, Wales and Jersey.
Maternity, perinatal & neonatal
Clinical Outcome Review
Focuses on a variety of topics to assess the quality of healthcare provided to children.
National Clinical Audit
Assesses whether babies admitted to neonatal units in England, Scotland, Wales and the Isle of Man receive consistent high-quality care.
National Clinical Audit
Aims to help continually improve how children and young people are treated, and cared for, in a paediatric intensive care unit in the UK and Ireland during life-threatening acute or critical illness.
Clinical Outcome Review
Records comprehensive data, standardised across England, on the circumstances of all children who die before their 18th birthday.
Clinical Outcome Review
Supports the delivery of safe, equitable, high-quality and patient-centred maternal, newborn and infant health services.
National Clinical Audit
A large-scale audit of NHS maternity services across England, Scotland and Wales.
Mental health
National Clinical Audit
Aims to improve the identification, timely management, and overall quality and consistency of eating disorder services across England.
National Clinical Audit
Exists to increase the quality of care that NHS mental health Trusts in England, and Health Boards in Wales, provide to people experiencing psychosis.
Clinical Outcome Review
Collects in-depth information on all suicides in the UK, to make recommendations for clinical practice and policy.
Musculoskeletal & rheumatology
National Clinical Audit
Designed to audit the care that patients with fragility fractures and inpatient falls receive in hospital and to facilitate quality improvement initiatives.
National Clinical Audit
Aims to improve the quality of care for people living with inflammatory arthritis.
Neurology & stroke
National Clinical Audit
Measures the performance of general hospitals and memory assessment services in England and Wales against standards relating to care delivery which are known to impact people with dementia.
National Clinical Audit
Aims to help epilepsy services, and those who commission health services, to measure and improve the quality of care for children and young people with seizures and epilepsies.
National Clinical Audit
Measures the quality and organisation of stroke care across England, Wales and Jersey (with additional funding by the Northern Ireland Government).
Obesity
National Clinical Audit
Brings together data to drive improvement in quality of care available to those living with overweight and obesity in England.
Paediatrics & child health
Clinical Outcome Review
Focuses on a variety of topics to assess the quality of healthcare provided to children.
National Clinical Audit
Assesses whether babies admitted to neonatal units in England, Scotland, Wales and the Isle of Man receive consistent high-quality care.
National Clinical Audit
Assesses the quality of care provided to children and young people living with diabetes who attend paediatric diabetes services across England, Wales and Jersey.
National Clinical Audit
Aims to help continually improve how children and young people are treated, and cared for, in a paediatric intensive care unit in the UK and Ireland during life-threatening acute or critical illness.
Clinical Outcome Review
Records comprehensive data, standardised across England, on the circumstances of all children who die before their 18th birthday.
Respiratory
National Clinical Audit
Aims to improve the quality of care, services, and clinical outcomes for people with respiratory disease (including asthma and COPD).
Surgery & perioperative
Clinical Outcome Review
Focuses on a variety of topics to assess the quality of healthcare provided to patients.
National Clinical Audit
Designed to raise the quality, safety, and consistency of major elective surgery within NHS services in England and publicly funded care in Jersey.
National Clinical Audit
Aims to improve the quality of care for patients undergoing emergency laparotomy in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
National Clinical Audit, Registry
Measures the quality and outcomes of care for patients who undergo major vascular surgery in NHS hospitals.
