This page provides a series of resources to support services who are participating in the audit of Adult Asthma secondary care, or who are eligible to participate and would like more information.
Adult asthma: V5 dataset now open!
The new V5 dataset for patients discharged from 1 April 2025 is now live on the webtool. You can still enter data for patients discharged before 1 April 2025 using the V4 dataset:
To ensure you are receiving all relevant correspondence from NRAP, we ask that you contact your IT department and ask for nrapinbox@rcp.ac.uk and asthma@rcp.ac.uk to be included in your ‘safe sender’ contact list.
Supporting documentation
Introductory information- Adult asthma user guide - detailed support for accessing and using the webtool as well as advice on information governance, data collection and submission.
- Adult Asthma welcome pack - detailed information for new users of the webtool as well as links to other useful materials.
- Adult asthma frequently asked questions - questions cover general information on the audit, technical questions on how to use the audit webtool, and questions on how we collect, store, use and share data.
- Adult asthma clinical audit dataset - version 3 (for patients discharged by 31 March 2024) - see the full list of data points you will be asked to enter on the audit webtool for each asthma patient included in the audit. The document includes help notes to help you respond to each question
- Adult asthma data collection sheet version 3 (for patients discharged by 31 March 2024)
- Adult asthma clinical audit dataset version 4 (for patients discharged on and after 1 April 2024) - see the full list of data points you will be asked to enter on the audit webtool for each asthma patient included in the audit. The document includes help notes to help you respond to each question
- Adult asthma data collection sheet version 4 (for patients discharged on and after 1 April 2024)
- Importing technical guidance for NRAP audits
- Guidance for using the webtool import function
- Data entry deadlines 2023-2026
- Sharing identifiable data - information on when and how NRAP might share identifiable data, and a record on when this has occurred.
- Data flows for adult asthma - diagram showing how NRAP and its stakeholders access and use clinical data on adult asthma.
- Adult asthma clinical fair processing - detailed explanation of NRAP’s approval to collect and store clinical data on adult asthma, and how data is shared with NRAP’s stakeholders.
- Information governance frequently asked questions
- Adult asthma metrics
All hospitals in England and Wales who admit people with asthma attacks are eligible to participate. To register your hospital, please complete and send the registration and Caldicott Guardian approval forms below to asthma@rcp.ac.uk.
Data submission support
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. Crown Informatics do have this permission in place. Therefore, for support in resolving import error messages, we have been advised that you contact the webtool provider Crown directly (helpdesk@crownaudit.org).
Healthcare quality improvement
Generic and asthma specific healthcare improvement support is available for everyone on the NRAP website. This includes:
- Recommendations for HI priorities
- Slide sets highlighting key findings from clinical audit reports to inform and support clinical teams to make improvements
- Templates for driver diagrams, PDSA cycles and SMART aims.
For more information about NRAP's HI strategy and activities, click here.
