Briefings
IHPN Briefing on CQC consultation October 2025
28/10/2025
Read IHPN's member briefing on the CQC's recent consultation on proposals to evolve and improve their approach to assessing and rating health and care providers.
Patient safety and quality
Delivering safe, high quality patient care is the number one priority for all independent healthcare providers. IHPN plays a leading role in engaging with the NHS, healthcare regulators and medical royal colleges to ensure a “whole systems” approach is taken to safety and quality so that our members can provide the best care for patients.
News
IHPN responds to Dash review into patient safety landscape
07/07/2025
IHPN responds to Dr Penny Dash's final report following her review into the patient safety landscape
Blog
Fostering Patient Safety and Quality Governance in 2025: A Year of Collaboration and Progress at the Independent Healthcare Providers Network
21/02/2025
With 2025 well underway, I’m excited to lead a range of initiatives that aim to strengthen the safety culture within healthcare, enhance governance practices, and help our members navigate the evolving healthcare landscape.
News
Quality in independent health providers hits all time high as sector treats record number of patients
20/02/2025
The proportion of independent healthcare providers rated “good” or “outstanding” has hit the highest ever level as the sector continues to treat record levels of both NHS and private patients.
Blog
World Cancer Day 2025
04/02/2025
To mark World Cancer Day, IHPN's Dawn Hodgkins shines a light on how independent providers are working to upport both NHS and private patients through the diagnosis, treatment and wider research about this most devastating of diseases.
News
IHPN responds to Dr Dash's final report into the CQC
15/10/2024
IHPN responds to Dr Penny Dash's final report into the Care Quality Commission (CQC)
Blog
Reflections on World Patient Safety Day - “Improving diagnosis for patient safety”
17/09/2024
IHPN's Director of Regulation, Dawn Hodgkins, looks reflects on World Patient Safety Day 2024 how the independent sector is "Improving diagnosis for patient safety"
News
IHPN responds to interim report on CQC effectiveness
26/07/2024
IHPN responds to Dr Penny Dash's interim report into the effectiveness of the CQC
Blog
Strength in numbers - MDT working in the independent sector
19/06/2024
Read IHPN's Dawn Hodgkins blog on our new tookit on Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) working
Reports
Multidisciplinary Team Working
18/06/2024
This new toolkit has been launched to support independent healthcare providers to further improve multi-disciplinary team (MDT) working in the sector, setting out the latest best practice and innovations from across the healthcare system.
News
New toolkit launched to support multi-disciplinary team working in the independent health sector
18/06/2024
A new toolkit has been launched by the Independent Healthcare Providers Network (IHPN) to support independent healthcare providers to further improve multi-disciplinary team (MDT) working in the sector, setting out the latest best practice and innovations from across the healthcare system.
Blog
Listening, Leading and Learning – reflecting on IHPN & CQC’s joint Patient Safety Conference
20/05/2024
The theme for this year’s event – the fifth of its kind – is around the “Culture of Care: Listening, Leading, Learning”. And over 120 members had the pleasure of hearing from a wide range of speakers from across the patient safety landscape, from clinicians and regulators to researchers and patients.