Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership

The Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP) was established in April 2008 to promote improvement in health services, by increasing the impact that clinical audit has on healthcare quality in England and Wales and, in some cases other devolved nations. It is led by a consortium of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, Royal College of Nursing and National Voices.

The Partnership holds the contract to commission, manage, and develop the National Clinical Audit and Patient Outcomes Programme (NCAPOP). This consists of more than 40 clinical audits, registries and confidential enquiries that cover a range of medical, surgical and mental health conditions. Their purpose is to engage clinicians in systematic evaluation of their clinical practice against standards (often set by NICE), and to encourage improvement in the quality of care. This programme is gradually being extended to other areas of healthcare, working with clinical, patient and professional advisory groups.

HQIP also hosts the National Joint Registry which was set up to collect information in England and Wales on joint replacement operations and to monitor the performances of implants, hospitals and surgeons. Additionally, the Partnership works closely with a number of national and professional leadership bodies and organisations including the Care Quality Commission (CQC), National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE), NHS England/Improvement, NHS Digital, Health Data Research UK, the Health Foundation, the Independent Healthcare Providers Network and the Private Healthcare Information Network, among others.

The Chief Executive Officer is Jane Ingham. The Trustee Board of HQIP includes the following members: Professor Carrie MacEwen - chair, Alistair Henderson - vice chair, Phil Baker, Peter Bloomfield, Victoria Tzortziou Brown, Sarah Dunnett, Michael Chapman, Gill Coverdale, Janie Gabriel, Susan Masters, Miles Sibley.

National Clinical Audits

 * Adult Diabetes: National Diabetes Foot Care
 * Adult Diabetes: National Diabetes Inpatient Audit
 * Adult Diabetes: National Diabetes Transition
 * Adult Diabetes: National Pregnancy in Diabetes
 * Adult Diabetes: National Core Diabetes Audit
 * Anxiety and Depression - decommissioned in July 2020
 * Breast Cancer in Older Patients
 * Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Audit, CVDPREVENT-commissioned Feb 2021
 * Care at the End of Life
 * Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease with Asthma: COPD secondary care
 * Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease with Asthma: Pulmonary rehabilitation
 * Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease with Asthma: Adult asthma
 * Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease with Asthma: Paediatric asthma
 * Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease with Asthma: Primary care (Wales only)
 * Dementia: Care in General Hospitals
 * Emergency Laparotomy
 * Falls and Fragility Fracture: Fracture Liaison Service Database
 * Falls and Fragility Fracture: Inpatient Falls
 * Falls and Fragility Fracture: National hip fracture database
 * Lung Cancer
 * Maternal and Perinatal
 * National Cardiac Audit Programme: Adult Cardiac Surgery
 * National Cardiac Audit Programme: Congenital Heart Disease Audit
 * National Cardiac Audit Programme: Heart Failure Audit
 * National Cardiac Audit Programme: Heart Rhythm Management Audit
 * National Cardiac Audit Programme: Myocardial Ischemia Audit Programme
 * National Cardiac Audit Programme: Percutaneous Cardiac Intervention Audit
 * National Gastro-intestinal Cancer Audit: Bowel Cancer Audit
 * National Gastro-intestinal Cancer Audit: Oesophago-Gastric Cancer Audit
 * National Joint Registry (UK)
 * National Vascular Registry
 * National Neonatal Audit Programme
 * Paediatric Diabetes
 * Paediatric Intensive Care Audit
 * Prostate Cancer Audit
 * Psychosis Audit
 * Early Inflammatory Arthritis Audit
 * Seizures and Epilepsy in Children and Young People
 * Sentinel Stroke Audit Programme

Clinical Outcome Review Programmes

 * Mental Health
 * Child Health
 * Medical and Surgical
 * Maternal and Newborn Infant

Mortality Review Programme

 * Learning Disability - decommissioned in May 2020
 * National Child Mortality Database

Non-NCAPOP Commissions

 * Perinatal Mortality Review Tool

A list of all former HQIP programmes is available on the HQIP website.