The Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership Helen Laing Contracts and Commissioning Manager

1. The Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership Helen Laing Contracts and Commissioning Manager

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. National Programme • Inherited projects • Six ‘new’ projects • Public Contracts Regulations 2006 • Commissioning process

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. Contact us Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership 1 Royal Exchange Avenue London EC3V 3LT 0207 4644310 www.hqip.org.uk communications@hqip.org.uk Promoting quality improvement for better healthcare