National Respiratory Audit Programme (NRAP)

Submitting data to NRAP

Please note NRAP do not have information governance permission to view or receive patient identifiable data (including, but not limited to date of birth, NHS number and patient address). Please do not send NRAP any patient identifiable information. We will still assist with your query to the best of our ability. 

If you require support in resolving specific import error queries, we advise that you contact the webtool provider Crown directly via helpdesk@crownaudit.org. Please do not send any data by email to Crown.

Data burden reduction

NRAP's data burden reduction strategy outlines how we're working to reduce the time, effort, and costs required for a provider to participate in our audits by collecting and submitting data. More information can be found in the HQIP Guidance for Data Burden Reduction. 

Case ascertainment strategy

Case ascertainment means the proportion of eligible patient records entered by a service into an audit. NRAP’s case ascertainment strategy outlines the current level of case ascertainment in NRAP, discusses factors affecting this, and sets out the steps NRAP will take to improve ascertainment in 2026-28

NRAP team

The internal team consists of a number of project managers and coordinators that facilitate the programme workstreams. External support is provided by our clinical leads and fellows, data analysts based at Imperial College London and our Crown Informatics, our webtool technical team. 

• Meet the team
• Organogram

NRAP outlier policy

NRAP published its refreshed outlier policy in April 2026.

• NRAP outlier policy
• NRAP service participation strategy

This policy outlines how NRAP will identify, manage and communicate outliers across the programme, to improve participation and support healthcare quality improvement.