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Commendations winners live webinar - Clinical Audit Heroes Awards 2025 (6 June 2025)
This is a webinar introducing the Clinical Audit Heroes Awards 2025 COMMENDATIONS winners — a highlight of Clinical Audit Awareness Week 2025 (#CAAW25). The session showcases the best in national clinical audit practice and the teams and individuals who are driving change through data and communication. Standout projects are recognised in the following categories:
1. NCAPOP Commendation – Celebrating projects that use National Clinical Audit Patient Outcomes Programme (NCAPOP) data to drive healthcare improvements; and
2. Communicating for Impact Commendation – Recognising excellence in effectively communicating project impact.
Winners present their projects, with each presentation offering practical insights, lessons learned, and inspiration to help others harness the full potential of clinical audit in their own setting.
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#CAAW25 main page: www.hqip.org.uk/clinical-audit-awareness-week
#CAAW25 Clinical Audit Heroes Awards 2025: www.hqip.org.uk/clinical-audit-heroes-awards-2025
HQIP’s NCAPOP programme: www.hqip.org.uk/national-programmes
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Webinar on Data-driven improvements in maternity care (Clinical Audit Awareness Week 2025)
Presented by HQIP as part of Clinical Audit Awareness Week 2025 (#CAAW25, 2-6 June 2025), watch this recording of a webinar and Q&A on Data-driven improvements in maternity care: A Regional Medical Director’s Perspective, with NHS England’s Dr Edward Morris and HQIP Associate Director Tina Strack.
Slides from the recording: https://www.hqip.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/CAAW25-presentation-maternity-event-05.06.25-FINAL-v05.06.25-PDF.pdf
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RELATED RESOURCES:
Maternity care-Saving Lives, Improving Mothers’ Care (MBRRACE-UK) – HQIP: https://www.hqip.org.uk/resource/improving-mothers-care-mbrrace/
Each Baby Counts | RCOG:https://www.rcog.org.uk/eachbabycounts
National Maternity and Perinatal Audit (NMPA) | RCOG: https://www.rcog.org.uk/about-us/quality-improvement-clinical-audit-and-research-projects/national-maternity-and-perinatal-audit-nmpa/
External reviews ordered over trust’s baby death rates | News | Health Service Journal: https://www.hsj.co.uk/quality-and-performance/external-reviews-ordered-over-trusts-baby-death-rates/7039358.article
Maternal Sepsis E-learning: https://www.scottishmaternity.org/maternal-sepsis-e-learning
Clinical tools - The UK Sepsis Trust: https://sepsistrust.org/healthcare-professionals/clinical-tools/UK Sepsis Trust clinical tools: https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng51/resources/uk-sepsis-trust-clinical-tools-pdf-17482288129477
New standards to improve maternity and neonatal care in Wales | GOV.WALES: https://www.gov.wales/new-standards-improve-maternity-and-neonatal-care-wales
https://www.npeu.ox.ac.uk/pmrt

CVDPREVENT Better cardiovascular care through data (Clinical Audit Awareness Week 2025)
Presented by CVDPREVENT & HQIP as part of Clinical Audit Awareness Week 2025 (#CAAW25, 2-6 June 2025), watch this recording of a webinar and Q&A on: Better cardiovascular care through data: how to use the CVDPREVENT audit and Data & Improvement Tool to support CVD care and tackle healthcare inequalities.
SPEAKERS:
Dr. Peter Green, GP and Clinical Lead, CVDPREVENT
Liz Corteville, QI Lead, NHS Benchmarking Network, CVDPREVENT
Dr Veena Raleigh, Senior Fellow, Policy, The King’s Fund.
RESOURCES:
CVDPREVENT Audit: https://www.hqip.org.uk/resource/cvdprevent-dec2024/
CVDPREVENT Data & Improvement Tool: https://www.cvdprevent.nhs.uk/
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Addressing healthcare inequalities through clinical audit (Clinical Audit Awareness Week 2025)
Presented by HQIP as part of Clinical Audit Awareness Week 2025 (#CAAW25, 2-6 June 2025), watch this discussion on where we are falling short in tackling health inequalities—and explore what can be done to get them back on track through clinical audit, with NHS England’s Dr Aoife Molloy and HQIP’s Professor Danny Keenan.
#CAAW25 main page.
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Related resources:
HQIP: Improving Health Inequality Data in The National Clinical Audit and Patient Outcomes Programme (NCAPOP) by Alice Bradley, National Medical Director’s Clinical Fellow 2022-2023, HQIP and Alice Conway, Medical Student, FMLM elective scheme:
www.hqip.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Improving-Health-Inequality-Data_HQIP_Nov-2023_FINAL.pdf
NHS CORE20PLUS5 Programme:
www.england.nhs.uk/about/equality/equality-hub/national-healthcare-inequalities-improvement-programme/core20plus5/core20plus5-cyp/
NHS Innovation for Healthcare Inequalities Programme:
www.england.nhs.uk/aac/what-we-do/innovation-for-healthcare-inequalities-programme/
RCP press release 'Nearly 90% of doctors warn that health inequalities are harming patients':
www.rcp.ac.uk/news-and-media/news-and-opinion/nearly-90-of-doctors-warn-that-health-inequalities-are-harming-patients/
Guardian article:
www.theguardian.com/society/2025/apr/03/doctors-urge-government-fight-poverty-victorian-diseases

Shared decision making - patient & public involvement (Clinical Audit Awareness Week 2025)
Presented by HQIP as part of Clinical Audit Awareness Week 2025 (#CAAW25, 2-6 June 2025), watch the second of two videos in a series exploring Patient & Public Involvement (PPI) in healthcare.
Chaired by Kim Rezel, HQIP’s Head of Patient and Carer Engagement, along with members of HQIP’s Service User Network (SUN), this engaging discussion explores SUN members' experiences in shared decision-making with healthcare professionals in healthcare—both for their own care and that of their loved ones—offering powerful insights into the value and potential impact of meaningful patient and public involvement.
#CAAW25 main page: www.hqip.org.uk/clinical-audit-awareness-week
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HQIP’s Service User Network (SUN) main page: www.hqip.org.uk/involving-patients/service-user-network

Patient advocacy in healthcare - patient & public involvement (Clinical Audit Awareness Week 2025)
Presented by HQIP as part of Clinical Audit Awareness Week 2025 (#CAAW25, 2-6 June 2025), watch the first of two videos in a series exploring Patient & Public Involvement (PPI) in healthcare.
Chaired by Kim Rezel, HQIP’s Head of Patient and Carer Engagement, along with members of HQIP’s Service User Network (SUN), this engaging discussion explores what it means to be a volunteer, patient advocate and champion in both local and national healthcare projects.
#CAAW25 main page: www.hqip.org.uk/clinical-audit-awareness-week
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Professor Danny Keenan in conversation with Sam Bartlett-Pestel
HQIP Medical Director Professor Danny Keenan talks with respiratory registrar Sam Bartlett-Pestel about his decision to step away from clinical practice for a year to pursue a fellowship with the Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management (FMLM).