Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP)
Chris Boulton currently serves as Deputy Director of Operations and Associate Director of Research and Governance for the National Joint Registry at the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP) since May 2018. Prior to this role, Chris was a self-employed Healthcare Quality and Informatics Consultant for a brief period in early 2018. From January 2013 to February 2018, Chris was the Falls and Fragility Fracture Audit Programme Manager and Project Manager for the National Hip Fracture Database at the Royal College of Physicians. Chris also held the position of Senior Data Manager at the University of Oxford from September 2011 to January 2013 and worked as Audit Manager for Trauma and Orthopaedics at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust from June 2002 to May 2010. Chris holds a Master of Medical Science in Clinical Audit from Keele University and a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from The Open University.
Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP)
We aim to improve health outcomes by enabling those who commission, deliver and receive healthcare to measure and improve our healthcare services. We are led by a consortium of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges and the Royal College of Nursing. We commission, manage, support and promote national and local programmes of quality improvement. This includes the national clinical audit programme, the clinical outcome review programme and the National Joint Registry on behalf of NHS England and other healthcare departments and organisations. We ensure patients and carers remain at the heart of our work through continued, strategic involvement in all relevant processes and projects We support healthcare professionals to review and improve their practice by providing education and training programmes, and opportunities to share best practice as part of promoting an integrated approach to quality improvement We work to inform and influence national healthcare policy by effectively communicating its work and that of its partners We encourage wide use of robust data for quality improvement of care, offering patient choice, promoting patient safety, supporting revalidation and service accreditation, commissioning, service redesign, and research We are committed to being an efficient, well run organisation, which supports staff development and welfare.