Flexible portfolio training (FPT) was launched as a pilot initiative within higher specialty training offered by Health Education England and the Royal College of Physicians. It protects 1 day a week (or 20% time equivalent) for non-clinical professional development. 

The National COPD Audit Programme has embedded quality improvement (QI) into its work. This page will hold all the QI resources produced by the audit programme, along with links to resources elsewhere.

The National Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Audit Programme for England and Wales comprises a number of ambitious audit workstreams, combined with an extensive partnership approach and comprehensive multidisciplinary, collaborative working.

The Asthma Audit Development Project informed the specification of a national asthma audit to cover England and Wales, established what audit approach should be adopted and carried out some of the foundation work required.

Royal College of Physicians Quality Improvement (RCPQI) aims to bring together existing quality improvement work within the RCP, as well as developing new infrastructure and approaches, to support and promote a continuously improving healthcare system.

Patient safety is the prevention of errors and adverse effects associated with healthcare.

The National Mortality Case Record Review Programme, which ended on 30 June 2019, implemented a standardised methodology to review care received by patients who had died.

The Future Hospital development sites were selected to put the principles of the future hospital into practice.

This workstream involved the collection of audit data relating to COPD patient care and management from routinely collected primary care data.