The National Asthma and COPD Audit Programme (NACAP) for England and Wales aims to improve the quality of care, services, and clinical outcomes for people with asthma (adults, children, and young people) and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
Spanning the entire patient care pathway, NACAP works closely with asthma and COPD patients, as well as healthcare professionals, and aspires to set out a vision for services which put patient needs first.
Read senior clinical lead Professor John Hurst’s priorities for NACAP.
NACAP governance
The NACAP governance structure consists of a Board, Advisory Group and two patient panels. Ad hoc steering groups also support Programme work.
Members of these groups contribute to programme activities and decisions and, therefore, declarations of interests that may conflict with the audit programme are required as a matter of good governance.
NACAP Governance structure
Declarations of interests policy/form for completion by governance members
NACAP Board
The NACAP Board provides expert direction, operational oversight and performance management of the NACAP programme and consists of stakeholders including patient representatives and national and patient organisations.
NACAP asthma and COPD advisory group
The advisory group provides operational advice on the individual NACAP workstreams and consist of patients and (healthcare) professionals considered experts in their field.
NACAP patient panels
The patient panels make sure views, experiences and ideas of people affected by asthma and COPD, who use the NHS, can help shape the audit.
Information for patients and details about how NACAP works in partnership with patients and carers can be found on the patient involvement and support page.
Communications
We produce regular newsletters providing updates on NACAP and its workstreams. If you would like to receive the NACAP newsletter, or are already on our contact list and wish to be removed, email nacap@rcp.ac.uk.
NACAP succeeds a number of historic projects, audits and confidential enquiries:
- Asthma Audit Development Project (AADP) – project to inform the specification of, and conduct the foundation work required for, a national asthma audit.
- National COPD Audit Programme – first national COPD audit programme, commissioned to deliver audits in primary, secondary and pulmonary rehabilitation services.
- National Review of Asthma Deaths (NRAD) – confidential enquiry which looked into the circumstances surrounding deaths from asthma from 1 February 2012 – 30 January 2013.