National Audit of Pulmonary Hypertension, 9th Annual Report, 2018

The information available from this webpage comes from the 9th National Audit of Pulmonary Hypertension (NAPH). The NAPH sets out to measure the quality of care provided to people referred to pulmonary hypertension services in Great Britain.

Making clinical audit data transparent

In his transparency and open data letter to Cabinet Ministers on 7 July 2011, the Prime Minister made a commitment to make clinical audit data available from the national audits within the National Clinical Audit and Patient Outcomes Programme.

What information is being made available?

NAPH data for 2017-18 is available at PH centre level for:

• National Standards
• Reference data

NAPH data for 2017-18 is available at Great Britain level for:

• National Standards
• Survival analysis
• Reference data

These data do not list individual patient information nor do they contain any patient identifiable data.

Using and interpreting the data

Data from the NAPH should not be looked at in isolation when assessing standards of care.

Accessing the data

The data are being made available on the data.gov website. Each year a data file from the NAPH will be made available in CSV format. Hospitals are identified by name and their national code.

What does the data cover?

The audit looks at the following areas:

• The 12 National Standards
• Survival Analysis
• Reference tables relating to patients and drug therapies

What period does the data cover?

This data covers the Pulmonary Hypertension standards and survival analysis from the 2017-18 NAPH for the period 1 April 2017 to 31 March 2018. Data is also available for previous audit years (2016-17 in the case of the National Standards, and in other cases, from 2009-10). This National Report was published on 25 October 2018.