National Clinical Cardiac Audit Market Engagement Event

The Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP) is working with NHS England to commission a new contract for the National Clinical Cardiac Audit programme (NCCA).

HQIP commissions the National Clinical Audit and Patient Outcomes Programme (NCAPOP) on behalf of NHS England and the devolved nations. The Programme comprises around 40 projects, including the National Clinical Cardiac Audit (NCCA) programme which currently encompasses the following six areas: heart failure, myocardial infarction, percutaneous coronary interventions, heart rhythm management, adult cardiac surgery, and congenital heart disease.

National comparative clinical audit is an improvement approach used to find out if healthcare is being provided in line with standards. It lets care providers and patients know where their service is doing well, and where there could be improvements. Building on the achievements of the current audits, HQIP will now be recommissioning the NCCA programme to continue to support quality improvement in cardiac care.

You are invited to an exciting market engagement and partnership building session on Wednesday 29June 2016. The event offers an opportunity to meet commissioners and gain an insight into the future of cardiac audits. As well as prime contractors, this event is also for those looking to partner or subcontract with another provider on one or more element/s of the audit programme – whether that be IT provision or quality improvement.

The event will include good opportunities for providers to network and the aim is to support new partnerships that deliver a diverse, inclusive and responsive network of provision prior to the beginning of the competitive process in June 2016.

This event is for all organisations with an interest in improving cardiac health and wellbeing by audit: from clinicians to IT providers.

The event will include good opportunities for providers to network and the aim is to support new partnerships that deliver a diverse, inclusive and responsive network of provision prior to the beginning of the competitive process in June 2016.

This event is for all organisations with an interest in improving cardiac health and wellbeing by audit: from clinicians to IT providers.

The event is being in London held on Wednesday 29 June 2016 from 10am-4pm.

If you would like to attend, please send details of attendees (name, job title, organisation and email address for a maximum two people per organisation) to HQIP Procurement via: procurement@hqip.org.uk. Full details of the event will be sent to you upon registration.

Please note, this is purely a market assessment exercise to support potential providers, gather facts and generate interest. The subsequent procurement will be advertised separately and all organisations seeking to participate will need to respond to the procurement advertisement in the normal way when published.

Additional information: Bidders that are interested in taking an active part in any subsequent procurement process should be aware that the project will be advertised in OJEU & on the Contracts Finder website.

(https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Search) and tender documents will only be available through the HQIP e-procurement portal: https://s2c.waxdigital.co.uk/HQIP/DisplayModules/TradeModules/BusinessModel/Registration.aspx?ApplicationInstanceID=00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000&Culture=en-GB&BrandingPath=Default

We recommend that you register with both of these websites in the meantime.