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April 2024

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Welcome to the latest round-up of clinical audit and programme news, events and updates from HQIP and other relevant healthcare organisations. 


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Clinical Audit Heroes Awards STILL OPEN


There’s still time to nominate your Clinical Audit Heroes!


Deadline: Sunday 5th May 2024


🌟 Don't miss your chance to enter, or nominate someone for, the Clinical Audit Heroes Awards! 🏆

These awards are a fantastic opportunity to recognise, share and learn from the incredible work that is happening to improve healthcare nationwide - and this year we are accepting entries from all quality improvement projects, whether clinical audit or not. The awards are open to projects, individuals or teams involved in any type of healthcare setting in the UK.


How to enter 

Taking part is easier than ever – just complete a short, simple online form. You can make multiple nominations, including yourself!

🔗 Discover the five award categories, and find nomination forms for each, using the links below:

🎉 The winners will be announced at a series of online Lunch & Learn events during Clinical Audit Awareness Week from 24-28 June 2024 (links to join are now on our website to add to your diary). 


Go ahead and make someone's day by nominating them!


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Clinical Audit Awareness Week: Exciting updates🎉 


We're thrilled to announce some exciting updates for Clinical Audit Awareness Week 2024🌟


EVENT: A conversation with Stella Vig, National Medical Director for Secondary Care and Quality, NHS England 

Friday 28 June 2024; 2.30-3.30pm (online)

Join us for a live discussion with Stella Vig, followed by a Q&A. HQIP’s Clinical Fellow, Claudia Snudden, will be interviewing Stella about her role within NHS England, how this contrasts with her life ‘on the ground’ as a practising clinician, and the challenges associated with translating data and evidence into action and impact at national level. 
Register here to obtain an MS Teams link to add to your calendar.


EVENT: NHS IMPACT and HQIP Quality Improvement 

Wednesday 26 June 2024; 10-11am (online)

NHS IMPACT and HQIP will deliver a joint online event, to share learning around the effective use of data and evidence to inform meaningful and actionable quality improvement. With a live Q&A, speakers will include Professor Ailsa Brotherton, Improvement Director for NHS IMPACT, and Clare Fountain, Associate Director of Healthcare Quality Improvement at HQIP, as well as best practice case studies.

Register: NHS IMPACT and HQIP Quality Improvement Event | NHS England Events


EVENT: From Audit to Impact (A case study: National Cancer Centre)
Thursday 27 June 2024; 4-5pm (online)

The National Cancer Audit Collaborating Centre (NATCAN) will be talking about their work since the Centre was established in October 2022. They will be demonstrating their new dashboards and showing how Trust/health board/Cancer Alliance’s data is reported, and how it can be used effectively to influence change. Join this online event to find out more about the quarterly rapid release data, the annual State of the Nation reports, the outlier process and future plans.
Register here to obtain an MS Teams link to add to your calendar.


VIDEO: The Mutual Benefits of Patient and Public Involvement (PPI)

Released on Tuesday 25 June 2024

In this new video, we will hear from three HQIP Service User Network (SUN) members about how they helped to co-design a sustainable model for implementing meaningful public involvement in HQIP’s Data Access Request Group (DARG). This video will be launched at the Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) Lunch & Learn event on Tuesday 25 June, at which there will be an exclusive opportunity to hear from the people involved as well as HQIP’s Head of Patient Engagement, Kim Rezel, about the mutual benefits of working together on this project. The video will also be shared on the HQIP website after this event.


BLOG: The importance of data gathering in addressing health inequalities
Released on Monday 24 June 2024
“For the COVID-19 pandemic, we all came together to make quick and significant strides to tackle difficult problems. Health inequalities is a similar issue.” In this new blog article, Professor Danny Keenan, HQIP Medical Director and Associate Medical Director to the Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, discusses the barriers to reporting health inequality data - found to be the case in the National Clinical Audit and Patient Outcome Programme (NCAPOP) in a recent report - and the on-going implications for patients. This blog article will be shared on the HQIP website.


RESOURCES: Clinical audit and quality improvement support

In addition to these events and outputs, HQIP will be resharing a number of resources to support clinical audit and quality improvement during Clinical Audit Awareness Week, including articles, e-learning, case studies, reports, guidance, blogs and more. Keep an eye on our website between 24 and 28 June...


For further information on all these events and everything #CAAW24, see our dedicated Clinical Audit Awareness Week page.

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New reports published


📢 We are pleased to announce that the following NEW resources have been published:

📊 The reports are available to view and download, along with all other reports, on our dedicated reports webpage


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Article: 'In for the long haul'


Each month, we are featuring an article from the 2024 edition of CORNERSTONE, HQIP’s FREE publication designed to support Quality Improvement (QI) in health and care. This month Vicky Patel, Chair, National Quality Improvement (incl. Clinical Audit) Network (N-QI-CAN) explores taking an effective and sustainable approach to clinical audit.


"Any commissioner or provider of health and care has a duty to review and monitor the quality of the services delivered, making improvements, where appropriate, that are sustainable. The clinical audit community fully supports this responsibility, and there are a number of exemplar projects that have made a difference to patient care and outcomes that take sustainability into consideration. However, this comes with challenges, and these need addressing if we are to enable teams to strengthen and future-proof our systems. Here, we outline some considerations and approaches that could support you in overcoming these challenges."


Read more on page 28 of CORNERSTONE here.

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New benchmarking available


📊 Data from the National Hip Fracture Database (NHFD) has been added to the National Clinical Audit Benchmarking (NCAB) website. 📈


This dataset, updated on 9 April 2024, draws from the NHFD report 2023 published on 14 September 2023. It covers data from January 2022 to December 2022.


NCAB is an online portal providing access to national audit performance data, searchable by speciality, Trust, hospital or unit.

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HQIP Go Awards finalist 🎉


🏆 We're thrilled to share some exciting news! 🎉 HQIP has been selected as a finalist for the Go Awards 23/24 in the Best Procurement Delivery category, for our entry: National Child Mortality Database. This recognition underscores our commitment to excellence in procurement and our dedication to advancing child health.

Thank you for your support! The awards will take place on May 16th at the Titanic Hotel Liverpool.🌟


Read more here.

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CVDPREVENT webinar 


🌟Join the CVDPREVENT webinar on May 15th, 2024, 1:00 - 3:00 pm🌟


CVDPREVENT is the national primary care audit for CVD prevention, gathering vital data to enhance identification, diagnosis, and management of conditions crucial for reducing CVD admissions and mortality.


In this session, they will explore:

  • The latest primary care data from CVDPREVENT.
  • Insights into new CVDPREVENT outcomes indicators and their creation.
  • Highlighting health inequalities findings revealed by the data.
  • A glimpse into quality improvement initiatives driven by CVDPREVENT data.

Don't miss this opportunity to stay informed and engaged! Register for the event here.

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