Reports by topic

Reports, infographics, recommendations and more from HQIP’s national improvement programmes and wider work.

Please note that some reports fall under more than one category.

Cancer

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Cardiovascular

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11 Dec 2025
Cardiovascular disease – annual report 2025
  • CVDPREVENT (National Audit of Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Primary Care), workstream 3

CVDPREVENT, which aims to support quality improvement in the prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in primary care in England, has published its latest annual audit report. Cardiovascular disease remains the leading cause of premature mortality in England Based on data up to March 2025, it contains key findings relating to…

13 Nov 2025
Acute limb ischaemia
  • Medical and Surgical Outcome Review Programme

The National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death (NCEPOD) has published Risking Life and Limb, a review of the quality of the care provided to adults with acute limb ischaemia (ALI)*. Delays occurred due to acute limb ischaemia not being recognised and the underuse of vascular networks The study…

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Diabetes

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12 Mar 2026
Paediatric diabetes – care and outcomes 2024/25
  • National Paediatric Diabetes Audit (NPDA)

This report from the National Paediatric Diabetes Audit (NPDA) finds that the number of children and young people receiving care from a paediatric diabetes unit rose to 35,801 in England,…

10 Apr 2025
Type 2 diabetes – spotlight audit 2023/24
  • National Paediatric Diabetes Audit (NPDA)

The National Paediatric Diabetes Audit (NPDA) has published a report on the care provided to children and young people (CYP) with Type 2 diabetes by paediatric diabetes units (PDUs) in…

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End of life care

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14 May 2026
Patients who do not undergo an emergency laparotomy 
  • National Emergency Laparotomy Audit (NELA)

Based on patients admitted to hospitals in England, Wales and Northern Ireland between 24 April 2024 and 31 March 2025, this report is an audit of the standards of care for patients who do not undergo an emergency laparotomy (‘NoLap’ cohort).  The inclusion of NoLap patients enables valuable insights into variations in clinical care and outcomes for high-risk patients managed without surgery This report is focussed on patients presenting with radiological and/or clinical suspicion of…

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Maternity, perinatal & neonatal

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12 Mar 2026
Multiple births outcomes of maternity care
  • National Maternity and Perinatal Audit (NMPA)

This report, from the National Maternity and Perinatal Audit (NMPA), is based on multiple births in NHS maternity services in England, Scotland and Wales during 2023. Of the 600,907 babies…

11 Dec 2025
Paediatric critical care – State of the Nations report 2025
  • Paediatric Intensive Care Audit Network (PICANet)

The Paediatric Intensive Care Audit Network (PICANet) has released a paediatric critical care summary report, based on data collected between January 2022 and December 2024. The report describes key metrics and…

13 Nov 2025
Induction of labour snapshot audit
  • National Maternity and Perinatal Audit (NMPA)

Based on births in NHS maternity services in England, Scotland and Wales during 2023, this report from the National Maternity and Perinatal Audit (NMPA) finds that one in three women…

9 Oct 2025
Neonatal care – summary report 2024 data
  • National Neonatal Audit Programme (NNAP)

The National Neonatal Audit Programme (NNAP) has published a summary report on 2024 data. This report finds that the proportion of very preterm babies, born between 24 and 32 weeks…

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Mental health

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12 Feb 2026
Suicide – annual report 2026 (2013-2023 data)
  • Mental Health Clinical Outcome Review (NCISH)

This latest report from the National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Safety in Mental Health (NCISH) found that there were 18,602 suicides by patients in the UK and Jersey over…

11 Dec 2025
Eating disorders – service mapping report 2025
  • National Audit of Eating Disorders (NAED)

This report shares the first findings from the new National Audit of Eating Disorders (NAED), detailing data provided about services in England between January and May 2025. In its first…

13 Feb 2025
Suicide and safety in mental health
  • Mental Health Clinical Outcome Review (NCISH)

The National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Safety in Mental Health (NCISH) has published its annual report 2025, which is based on UK patient and general population data from 2012-2022….

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Musculoskeletal & rheumatology

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8 Jan 2026
Annual report: Steps to fracture liaison service effectiveness
  • Falls and Fragility Fracture Audit (FFFAP), incl National Hip Fracture Database (NHFD)

The Fracture Liaison Service Database (FLS-DB), part of the Falls and Fragility Fracture Audit, has published a new report: Steps to fracture liaison service effectiveness: importance of treatment recommendations. Based…

5 Nov 2025
National Joint Registry (NJR) annual report 2025
  • National Joint Registry (NJR)

The 22nd Annual Report from the National Joint Registry (NJR), which is hosted by HQIP, covers the period from 1st April 2024 to 31st March 2025. Available online, via the…

9 Oct 2025
Inpatient falls – Stepping towards improvement
  • Falls and Fragility Fracture Audit (FFFAP), incl National Hip Fracture Database (NHFD)

The National Audit of Inpatient Falls (NAIF), part of the Falls and Fragility Fractures Audit Programme (FFFAP), has published Stepping towards improvement, an analysis of 2024 inpatient falls audit data….

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Neurology & stroke

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13 Nov 2025
Stroke – State of the Nation report 2025
  • Sentinel Stroke National Audit Programme (SSNAP)

This report from the Sentinel Stroke National Audit Programme (SSNAP) is based on 92,414 patients who were admitted across 250 hospitals, 195 community services and 184 six-month follow-up providers in…

10 Jul 2025
Epilepsy – combined organisational and clinical audits
  • Epilepsy12 (National Clinical Audit of Seizures and Epilepsies for Children and Young People)

Epilepsy12 (delivered by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health) has published a report about the first year of care for children and young people (CYP) following a first…

12 Dec 2024
Dementia – care in general hospitals
  • National Audit of Dementia (NAD)

The National Audit of Dementia (NAD) has published a report on Care in General Hospitals 2023-2024, which underscores the need for a continued strong focus on governance, monitoring and oversight…

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Obesity

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13 May 2021
National Maternity and Perinatal Audit – NHS Maternity care for women with a Body Mass Index (BMI) of 30 or above
  • National Maternity and Perinatal Audit (NMPA)

This report focuses on the maternal and neonatal outcomes of pregnant women with body mass index (BMI) of 30 or above who gave birth between 1 April 2015 and 31 March 2017, compared with those of women with BMI in the range 18.5–24.9. Women with BMI of 30 or above have a higher risk of complications antenatally, intrapartum and postnatally than women with a BMI in the healthy range. Nevertheless,…

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Paediatrics & child health

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14 May 2026
Asthma & COPD – Wales primary care 
  • National Respiratory Audit Programme (NRAP)

This report is an analysis of adult and Children and Young people’s (CYP) asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) primary care data in Wales. Data were obtained from 371 general practices in Wales in August 2025, and captured activity between 1 August 2023 and 31 July 2025.  Almost one in four people wait 5 years or more…

12 Mar 2026
Paediatric diabetes – care and outcomes 2024/25
  • National Paediatric Diabetes Audit (NPDA)

This report from the National Paediatric Diabetes Audit (NPDA) finds that the number of children and young people receiving care from a paediatric diabetes unit rose to 35,801 in England, Wales and Jersey in 2024/25, marking a 29% increase in caseload across England and Wales over the past decade. 72%…

12 Feb 2026
Understanding consanguinity-related child deaths
  • National Child Mortality Database (NCMD)

The National Child Mortality Database (NCMD) has published a thematic report on the deaths of children who were born to parents who are blood related. The data show that there was an increased proportion of deaths from genetic disease for those children whose parents were consanguineous, compared with those whose…

11 Dec 2025
Emergency paediatric surgery
  • Child Health Clinical Outcome Review Programme
11 Dec 2025
Paediatric critical care – State of the Nations report 2025
  • Paediatric Intensive Care Audit Network (PICANet)
13 Nov 2025
Child Death Review data release 2025
  • National Child Mortality Database (NCMD)
10 Jul 2025
Life-limiting conditions, and palliative and end-of-life care
  • National Child Mortality Database (NCMD)

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Respiratory

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14 May 2026
Asthma & COPD – Wales primary care 
  • National Respiratory Audit Programme (NRAP)

This report is an analysis of adult and Children and Young people’s (CYP) asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) primary care data in Wales. Data were obtained from 371 general practices in Wales in August 2025, and captured activity between 1 August 2023 and 31 July 2025.  Almost one in four people wait 5 years or more for a diagnosis of COPD in the NHS” Asthma + Lung UK The audit builds upon the learning from previous primary care reports. Contributing…

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Surgery & perioperative

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14 May 2026
Patients who do not undergo an emergency laparotomy 
  • National Emergency Laparotomy Audit (NELA)

Based on patients admitted to hospitals in England, Wales and Northern Ireland between 24 April 2024 and 31 March 2025, this report is an audit of the standards of care for patients who do not…

11 Dec 2025
Emergency paediatric surgery
  • Child Health Clinical Outcome Review Programme

The Child Health Clinical Outcome Review Programme (delivered by NCEPOD) has released Right Place, Right Time, Right Team, which is a review of the quality of the care provided to…

13 Nov 2025
Acute limb ischaemia
  • Medical and Surgical Outcome Review Programme

The National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death (NCEPOD) has published Risking Life and Limb, a review of the quality of the care provided to adults with acute limb…

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Other reports

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12 Jun 2025
Intensive care – Recovery Beyond Survival
  • Medical and Surgical Outcome Review Programme

The National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death (NCEPOD) has published Recovery Beyond Survival, a review of the quality of rehabilitation care provided to patients following an admission to an intensive care unit. My physical needs were just the start, but I soon came to realise that my cognitive function and mental health needed support too Based on 1,018 patients aged 18 and over who were admitted as an…

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