PQIP Cohort Report March 2024 - March 2025
We are thrilled to bring you the sixth edition of the national Perioperative Quality Improvement Programme's Cohort Report.
PQIP is a research study being led by the National Institute of Academic Anaesthesia Centre for Research and Improvement, working on behalf of the RCoA and a range of stakeholders. PQIP has continued to work towards reducing the risk of complications after major surgery through ensuring that patients get the best possible care throughout their perioperative pathway. It is wonderful to see more hospitals than ever collecting patient data and thousands of patients providing their own feedback on satisfaction with care and longer-term quality of life. PQIP’s work is a benefit to teams across the country, giving them the opportunity to act on their own quality data and helping them to improve the quality of the perioperative pathway for their patients.
Click here to access the 2024 - 2025 report
A letter from Professor Ramani Moonesinghe (PQIP Chief Investigator):
"Dear Reader,
It’s a privilege to bring you our 6th Cohort report of the Perioperative Quality Improvement Programme. We have 
recruited more than 60,000 participants to the study so far, and now have our target recruitment of 70,000
in sight. Alongside that we are making plans for the future. This includes publishing more papers based on the
Cohort we have recruited, fulfilling all of the ambitions of our original protocol and publication plans, and thinking
about how we might turn PQIP formally into a clinical trials platform. The VITAL study collaboration with Joyce
Yeung, Sham Jhanji and the Warwick Clinical Trials team has recently concluded, recruiting 2,500 participants
from 40 PQIP hospitals – many congratulations to the VITAL team and thank you to all who contributed. We are
always looking for new opportunities to collaborate on new studies so do get in touch with me directly if you want
to chat about opportunities.
In the meantime, let’s reflect on the work we still have to do. Similar themes emerge this year to past reports
– while we continue to see improvements in DrEaMing rates and some of our outcome measures, we also
remain challenged by some aspects of perioperative care which our patients should probably be able to take for
granted – for example, individualised risk assessment before surgery, opportunities to have anaemia and diabetes
optimised to reduce transfusion, complications and length of stay, and access to the right location of care after
surgery. We hope that your individualised hospital report will give you insights to your particular situation and a
starting point to focus on improvement efforts at local level .
Huge thanks to every one of our collaborators at local level and to the fantastic study team at the RCoA and UCL,
particularly our study coordinator Dominic Olive, RCoA Research Manager, Christine Taylor, PQIP fellows past
and present, James Durrand and Duncan Wagstaff, patient representatives, Irene Leemans and Jenny Dorey, and
our amazing analyst Aiman Al-Eryani.
Thanks as always for your support and for your care for our patients.
Best wishes,
Ramani Moonesinghe"
