The information available from this webpage comes from the 12th 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 2020-21 is available at PH centre level for:
NAPH data for 2020-21 is available at Great Britain level for:
- National Standards
- Survival analysis
- Reference data
NAPH data for 2020-21 is available at England and Wales level for:
- COVID-19 related mortality
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 15 National Standards
- Survival Analysis
- COVID-19 related mortality and COVID-19 experience
- 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 2020-21 NAPH for the period 1 April 2020 to 31 March 2021. Data is also available for previous audit years (2016-17, 2017-18, 2018-19 and 2019-20 in the case of the National Standards, and in other cases, from 2009-10). This National Report was published on 20 January 2022.