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N-QI-CAN Open Meeting – 26th March 2026

N-QI_CAN Chairs Slides

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It’s Clinical Audit Awareness Week 2025 (2-6 June)!

You’re invited to take part in an exciting, jam-packed agenda of events and activities run by HQIP and ourselves. All sessions are completely FREE and it’s not too late to join us for our live webinars each day. Don’t miss this opportunity to engage, learn, and connect throughout the week!

LIVE WEBINARS

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MON 2 JUNE

  • 12.30-13.45: Patient Safety – Hear how we can collaboratively and effectively utilise clinical audit to continuously improve patient safety, prevent avoidable harm and work together within our patient safety systems. The Clinical Audit Hero Award for Patient Safety will be announced and there will be the opportunity to hear the winner present their project for wider learning for us all.

TUES 3 JUNE

  • 12.30-13.45: Patient & Public Involvement – Hear how we can utilise patient centred approaches to delivering clinical audit with effective shared decision making for improvement. The Clinical Audit Hero Award for Patient & Public Involvement will be announced and there will be the opportunity to hear the winner present their project for wider learning for us all.

WED 4 JUNE

  • 12.30-13.45: Healthcare Inequalities – Hear how to measure within clinical audits for continuously improving to reduce unwarranted variation in health outcomes to support people to live well for longer. The Clinical Audit Hero Award for Healthcare Inequalities will be announced and there will be the opportunity to hear the winner present their project for wider learning for us all.
  • 13.45-14.30: Better cardiovascular care through data, with CVDPREVENT’s Dr. Peter Green, GP and Clinical Lead; Liz Corteville, QI Lead, NHS Benchmarking Network; and Dr Veena Raleigh, Senior Fellow, Policy, The King’s Fund.

THURS 5 JUNE

  • 12.30-13.45: Influencing Change – Hear how to achieve a collaborative approach to system wide change as a direct impact of clinical audit for improvement. The Clinical Audit Hero Award for Influencing Change will be announced and there will be the opportunity to hear the winner present their project for wider learning for us all.
  • 14.15-15.00: Data-driven improvements in maternity care: a regional medical director’s perspective, with NHS England’s Dr Edward Morris CBE FRCOG; and HQIP Associate Director, Tina Strack.

FRI 6 JUNE

  • 10.00-11.00: Clinical Audit Heroes Commendation Awards 2025, hosted by HQIP’s Rachael Sample, with presentations by winning projects that 1) use NCAPOP data to drive healthcare improvements, and 2) communicate effectively.
  • 12.30-13.45: Efficiencies – Hear how we take action on clinical audit outcomes. Can we measure the impact when introducing change and improvements that will release resource, avoid duplication and build an NHS for the Future that prioritises patient care? The Clinical Audit Hero Award for Efficiencies will be announced and there will be the opportunity to hear the winner present their project for wider learning for us all.

OTHER EVENTS & ACTIVITIES DURING #CAAW25

  • Check out HQIP’s website for a variety of resources for other activities. Highlights include a new video on improving sepsis care, a live Q&A on HQIP’s X on balancing learning and patient safety, real stories of Patient & Public Involvement (PPI), a new podcast on tackling healthcare inequalities through clinical audit, and more!

Stay up to date on activities taking place during #CAAW25 by joining in discussions on the N-QI-CAN #CAAW Discussion Forum, and following HQIP on X and LinkedIn, or going to the dedicated #CAAW25 main webpage.

Clinical Audit Awareness Week 2025 #CAAW25 – Launch event on 12 March

We are delighted to announce the return of Clinical Audit Awareness Week (#CAAW25), which will take place from 2-6 June 2025.

To launch this year’s #CAAW25, we are holding a short online event on Wednesday 12 March, 12:30pm – 1:00pm. This will include a presentation by Professor Danny Keenan (HQIP Medical Director) and Vicky Patel (Chair of N-QI-CAN), who will talk about the impact of clinical audit and quality improvement, as well as details of how to get involved in this year’s campaign and awards. 

Register for launch event

What is Clinical Audit Awareness Week (#CAAW25)?

#CAAW25 is a national campaign designed to share and celebrate the impact of clinical audit and quality improvement in healthcare, and plays an important part in promoting the value of this work across healthcare.

Run in collaboration with the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP), this year’s campaign will again centre around the Clinical Audit Heroes Awards. Further information on the awards, and on the wider #CAAW25 campaign and events, will be available in future HQIP eBulletins, on social media (follow @HQIP on X and HQIP on LinkedIn), and posted to HQIP’s dedicated Clinical Audit Awareness Week and Clinical Audit Heroes Awards webpages.

We look forward to seeing you at the #CAAW25 launch event on 12 March!

Clinical Audit Awareness Week 2024 #CAAW24

Join us each day of this years #CAAW24 (24th-28th June) at our Lunch and Learn as detailed above and find out who has won Audit Hero award in each category. There is no need to register – just click on the links provided on the HQIP CAAW24 page below:

https://www.hqip.org.uk/clinical-audit-awareness-week
Final confirmed speakers are as follows per day:

Monday 24th – Rachel Poole – Head of Patient Safety Implementation – NHSE
Tuesday 25th – Kim Rezel – Head of Patient and Public Engagement  – HQIP
Wednesday 26th – Dr Charlotte Richardson   – Clinical Fellow, Healthcare Inequalities Improvement Team, NHS England and Danny Keenen – Medical Director HQIP
Thursday 27th – Sam Riley – Director of Making Data Count – NHSE
Friday 28th – Zoe Lord – Improvement Manager NHS Horizons

Archive

Record Keeping Webinar

On Monday (8th Jan 24) we held a Records Keeping Audits webinar. The event was well attended and was hosted by Marina Otley N-QI-CAN General Secretary and introduced by N-QI-CAN Chair Vicky Patel.

We heard 4 excellent presentations from network members sharing their audit processes and methods and gave colleagues lots to think about and take away. If you missed the session you can watch it back on our You-Tube channel – link below

Thanks to all involved. Let us know if you would like us to hold any other themed webinars.

Click here to book a place on the webinar advertised below

Click here to book a place on the workshop advertised below

Register now for event advertised below https://www.events.england.nhs.uk/events/taking-action—strategic-picture-culture-change

Making Data Count in clinical audit: improvement focussed conversations

Thu, 9 March 2023, 10:00 – 11:30 GMT

Book a free place online below:

Making Data Count in clinical audit : improvement focussed conversations Tickets, Thu 9 Mar 2023 at 10:00 | Eventbrite

Link to forum event page: http://forum.nqican.org.uk/viewtopic.php?p=4965#p4965

Lunch-and-Learn events

A series of five online events will be hosted by N-QI-CAN during Clinical Audit Awareness Week:

The winners will also be invited to present on the relevant day. Look forward to seeing you there.

Infographics Network – 2nd meeting – 23rd May 2022

http://forum.nqican.org.uk/viewtopic.php?f=53&t=1476

Infographics Network – Launch and Training Event 23rd February 2022

To book please email us at nqi.can1@nhs.net or joining details are available via our forum. Hope to see you there.

Making Data Count Webinar 27th January 2022

Do you work with clinical audit data?  Are you confident that you are getting the most out of your data and presenting it in a way which makes the key messages clear for your colleagues?  If not, join this session where you will learn about how to make your data count.  This fun and interactive session will provide you with the knowledge, tools and techniques to improve your presentation of data.  It will provide examples of how audit data has benefitted from the #plotthedots approach and resulted in less spuddling behaviour.

If you are unable to attend the webinar it will be recorded and made available following the event.

Register to attend the webinar here: www.mdca-270122.eventbrite.co.uk

The Search for Local Clinical Auditor of the Year 2021 is on – deadline 22nd October 2021

Clinical Audit Leadership Summit 26th Nov 2021

Please find below details of forthcoming Clinical Audit Leadership Summit from HCUK

Please find below details of our forthcoming Clinical Audit Leadership Summit which I feel will be of interest to your network.

http://emails.healthcareconferencesuk.c … jMF3UBUwQ8

We are able to offer your members a 20% discount, please use code HCUK20KH when booking. In addition we offer a discounted rate for Clinical Audit Mangers and Leads of just £195+VAT (usual rate £295+VAT).

I hope you will be able to help and look forward to hearing from you.

Kind regards
Kate
HCUK

N-QI-CAN and HQIP Joint Webinar – 15th July 2021

As part of our forward plan – our next webinar will be a joint event with HQIP on ‘Awareness and engagement with National Clinical Audit and Patient Outcomes Programme (NCAPOP) amongst doctors in training’ on Thursday 15th July 12:30 – 13:30.

Open to all regional clinical audit / QI network members, Doctors in training, Audit leads and anyone else working in this important area. Agenda and further details below.

HQIP-NQICAN-webinar-NCAPOP-Drs-in-training-webinar-websiteDownload

Please join via MS Teams on 15th July 12:30pm – 1:30pm

Microsoft Teams meeting

Join on your computer or mobile app

Click here to join the meeting

We look forward to seeing you there.

N-QI-CAN Webinar on 28th April 2021

Measuring Success

To see a recording (and outputs) of our ‘Measuring Success in Clinical Audit’ – please see associated forum page. Below is a brief presentation from the event on our new forward plan and governance from our General Secretary Sarah Chessell.