New resources published
The following NEW resources have been published this month:
A full list of all published reports can be found on the Reports section of our website.
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HQIP report: Improving Health Inequality Data in the NCAPOP
This report is the result of a project to identify and explore the barriers to health inequality data being routinely reported within the National Clinical Audit and Patient Outcome Programme (NCAPOP), which is commissioned by HQIP on behalf of NHS England and the Welsh Government.
This is a matter of critical importance since health inequalities are known to cause unjust and preventable differences in health outcomes. Research has shown that the implementation of a wide-ranging and diverse strategy to tackle these disparities can yield far-reaching outcomes on an individual and population health level. As such, reliable and accurate data is essential to further understand inequalities in health and adapt health services to address the needs of underserved communities.
Read the report in full here.
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National Joint Registry update
This year the National Joint Registry (NJR) is inviting applications for a funded non-clinical full-time PhD studentship for a UK university to leverage data from the NJR to advance orthopaedic research. You can find more information on this opportunity and on how to apply here.
They also run a rolling NJR Research Fellowship programme which is delivered in partnership with Orthopaedic Research UK and the Royal College of Surgeons of England. NJR welcome applications from orthopaedic trainees who wish to contribute to the analysis of NJR data by undertaking a period of independent research into topics related to joint replacement surgery. You can find out more about this
opportunity here.
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National Joint Registry features in The Lady
"Surprisingly, when it comes to joint issues, women are often the most hesitant to seek help. They may delay having hip and knee replacements because of caregiving responsibilities or possible concerns about the poor outcomes of such procedures. This seems to be the case even though data increasingly shows that hip and knee replacements are generally highly successful and give many patients improved mobility and relief from pain."
Tim Wilton, National Joint Registry (NJR) Medical Director, has written an article about hip replacement for women, for the October edition of The Lady magazine titled Hip hip hooray for new joints…
You can read the full article here.
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2024 quality improvement publication out now
The 2024 edition of CORNERSTONE, HQIP’s FREE publication designed to support Quality Improvement (QI) in health and care, is now online. It features short, easy-to-read articles on the following topics:
- Patient and Public Engagement
- Benchmarking
- Translating data into meaningful change
- An ‘umbrella approach’ to audit: sharing, efficiencies and results
- How data on joints benefits hospitals
- Taking an effective and sustainable approach to clinical audit.
It also contains award-winning exemplar projects, resources, Quality Improvement (QI) support and more.
Read CORNERSTONE 2024 in full here.
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New benchmarking data available
The following datasets have been published on the National Clinical Audit Benchmarking (NCAB) website, HQIP's online portal which provides access to national audit performance data.
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Project to explore public involvement in our data access process
We are delighted to announce that HQIP has been awarded funding to explore best practice in enabling members of the public to be involved in our health data access process. This proof-of-concept funding from Health Data Research UK is part of a wider UK Health Data Research Alliance initiative aimed at helping organisations to improve transparency and build public trust when sharing health data for public benefit. The new project, which will run until March 2024, will enable HQIP to build on our existing patient and public engagement work and explore current best practice in involving public members in data access committees. It is particularly relevant that members of HQIP’s own Service User Network will take a leading role, guiding us in defining a way forward.
Further information about this project can be found here.
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Blog: The potential use of AI in national clinical audit
In the ever-evolving realm of technological advancements, Artificial Intelligence (AI) stands out as a beacon of transformative change. From smart home systems to predictive algorithms in finance, AI is reaching into more and more corners of our modern existence. The face of this revolution is generative AI, that is: learning models that can generate text, images, and other content based on the data they were trained on. For HQIP and our audit providers, the rise of AI offers both challenges and opportunities. We stand at the cusp of a new era where we must consider the nuances of integrating this technology into our daily workflows. How can we harness it for efficiency, while also navigating its complexities to ensure we remain compliant,
especially concerning data protection?
In this blog, Dr Claudia Snudden, Clinical Fellow and Drew Smith, Associate Director at HQIP delve into two ways that generative AI can add value to national clinical audits: data analysis and content generation.
Read in full here.
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Case study: Influencing organisational change
Ella Howard, Assistant Psychologist, Emotional Health and Wellbeing Service (EHWS), Cambridgeshire Community Services was a winner in the Influencing Organisational Change category of the 2023 Clinical Audit Heroes Awards (run as part of Clinical Audit Awareness Week). One of five categories in 2023, this category recognises clinical audits and projects that have supported
meaningful change at Board or other senior management level…
This case study is based on the Peer-to-Peer clinical record keeping auditing programme, which was conducted within the EHWS to improve compliance against a set of service specific record keeping standards, and support staff with the maintenance and improvement of clinical record keeping.
Read the case study in full here.
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HQIP annual report 2022-23
HQIP's latest annual report is now available to view and download.
This was a year in which we, along with everyone else in healthcare, were able - albeit tentatively - to turn our attention back to the future. While COVID-19 continued in its various guises (one in 13 people in the UK were reported to have the virus at the end of March 2022), it was clear that the sector needed to plan for recovery. But what did this mean in practice, and what was feasible, in an already overstretched service? Identifying where resources were needed most, and where they would make the greatest difference to achieve maximum impact, was - and still is - part of the solution. In other words, the value of audit and clinical outcome data was never greater than in 2022-23.
In addition to HQIP's accounts, this annual report shares our strategic objectives and key achievements for 1 April 2022 - 31 March 2023 as well as future plans.
Read this, and previous, annual reports here.
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