The Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership

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• The Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership
• Helen Laing
• Contracts and Commissioning Manager

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Who is HQIP?

• Established April 2008
• Led by Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, the
  Royal College of Nursing and National Voices
• Non-profit making and non-regulatory
• Partnership forming and collaborative working

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Aims

• To lead a programme of work in support of the
  re-invigoration of clinical audit
• Manage and develop the National Clinical Audit
  and Patients Outcomes Programme (NCAPOP)
• To be a leading player in quality improvement

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How?

• Operationally responsible for delivery of DH
  strategy on re-invigorating clinical audit
• NCAAG acts as an advisory body and develops
  strategic policy
• Engaging with representatives and healthcare
  professionals
• Engaging with patients and service users
• Supporting local staff to conduct better audits
• Improving national audit quality and relevance
• Implementing other quality improvement initiatives

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How?

• To be a leading player in quality improvement
• Build national and local level partnerships
• Promote value of audit as part of professional
  re-certification and validation
• Promote the review of participation in audit as
  part of commissioning and regulation
• Develop audit as a professional area of service
  delivery and professional practice
• Working out of London - but England and Wales
  wide

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NCAPOP, other national audits and registries

• Manage 28 national clinical audits
• New audits and criteria NCAAG
• Improved Contract Management
• Diversification of funding
• Periodically inviting ideas for new audit and
  commissioning against DH priorities
• Support to develop registries and new audits

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National Programme

• Inherited projects
• Six new projects
• Public Contracts Regulations 2006
• Commissioning process

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Local support

• Single Point of contact for local audit staff
• Best practice database
• Support established and create new local/regional
  networks in audit
• Creating a library of resources/tools for local
  audit use
• Events and conferences
• The NCAF

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Developing the professional status

• Developing roles for audit staff
• Developing competences for audit staff
• Developing/funding a training strategy
• Establishing ethical and conduct standards
• Potentially development of a professional
  organisation for audit staff

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Promoting audit as part of regulation /
commissioning

• Encouraging commissioners to specify audit as a
  requirement within contracts and funding it
• Working with regulators to enable them to assess
  audit as part of practice more effectively
• Encourage the use of audit results within
  standard metric sets

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Making audit part of re-validation and service
accreditation

• Work with key partners e.g. The Academy of
  Medical Royal Colleges - to define role of audit
  in re-validation
• Explore accreditation of services
• Explore accreditation of accreditation processes

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Outcomes to date

• A more responsive, more effective suite of
  national audits which lead to proven improvements
  in quality of care
• A greater diversity of national audits funded by
  several sources
• Development work on registries/clinical databases
  to help them become better QI tools
• Selling of audit and its value for QI
• Better linkage between national audit and local
  practitioners
• Higher quality local audit practice
• Better clinician/manager engagement
• Better supported, trained and motivated local
  audit staff

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Contact us

• Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership
• 1 Royal Exchange Avenue
• London EC3V 3LT
• 0207 4644310
• www.hqip.org.uk
• communications_at_hqip.org.uk
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• Promoting quality improvement for better
  healthcare