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.

NACAP aims to deliver improvements in the care of asthma and COPD patients across their pathway and has therefore embedded quality improvement into each of its workstreams.

The National Asthma and COPD Audit Programme aims to improve the quality of care, services and clinical outcomes for patients with asthma and COPD.

The pulmonary rehabilitation workstream of the National Asthma and COPD Audit Programme comprises a continuous clinical audit of service provision and delivery of pulmonary rehabilitation, a snapshot audit of the organisation and resourcing of services, and an accreditation programme.

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

The COPD secondary care workstream comprises two parts: a continuous clinical audit of people admitted to hospital in England, Scotland (1 November 2018 until 6 November 2020)* and Wales with COPD exacerbations, and a snapshot audit of the organisation and resourcing of care.

ILCOP brought together healthcare teams from different NHS trusts to share best practice in diagnosing, treating and supporting patients with lung cancer.

The Stroke Programme has been at the forefront of quality improvement programmes in stroke since 1996.