National Audit of Schizophrenia (NAS)

Being involved in NAS enabled clinicians who treat people with schizophrenia in the community to assess the quality of their prescribing of antipsychotic drugs and of their monitoring of  patients’ physical health.

It also supported them to monitor patients’ experience and outcome of treatment, plus carers’ satisfaction with information and support.

Local services could compare their performance with national standards and to benchmark with other services. In addition, they could identify what they did well and where there was potential to improve.

Wide participation in the audit also created an overview of the quality of care being provided nationally.

It was expected that all Mental Health Trusts in England and Health Boards in Wales who provide community-based care and treatment to service users with schizophrenia would participate in NAS.

NAS ran for two rounds of audit and this work has been built upon by the National Clinical Audit of Psychosis (NCAP), which looks at the care being provided to people with a wider range of illnesses, and  includes people in hospital settings as well as those in community services.

• Full second round national report 2014 (England and Wales) (pdf)                           
• Second round executive summary 2014 (England and Wales) (pdf)  
• Adroddiad ar ail gylch yr Archwiliad Cenedlaethol o Sgitsoffrenia (NAS2) 2014 – Crynodeb Gweithredol - (Executive Summary, Welsh language version) (pdf)  
• Second round of the National Audit of Schizophrenia (NAS2) - Report for Northern Ireland (pdf)  
• Second National Audit of Schizophrenia - what you need to know - findings from the audit in plain English (pdf), which has been compiled by Rethink Mental Illness and NAS
• Second round national report (England and Wales) online version
• Data for the case note audit of the second round of NAS is available on www.data.gov.uk

• Full National report 2012 (England and Wales) (pdf) - includes findings from the audit and the full recommendations.
• Executive summary 2012 (England and Wales) (pdf) - contains the key national findings and summary of recommendations.
• National Audit of Schizophrenia: What you need to know (pdf) -  a report presenting findings from the audit in plain English, which has been compiled by Rethink Mental Illness and NAS.
• National Audit of Schizophrenia: Easy read version (pdf) - an accessible version of the national report compiled by MenCap.

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Audit tools for the second round of audit

• Audit of practice tool (PDF)*
• Service user questionnaire (PDF)*
• Carer questionnaire (PDF)*

NAS audit tools used in the first round of NAS:

• Audit of practice tool (PDF)*
• Service user questionnaire (PDF)*
• Carer questionnaire (PDF)*

*These tools and documents were specifically developed for use within the National Audit of Schizophrenia.

Physical health parameters and appropriate interventions are set out in the Lester adaptation of the cardiometabolic health resource. (PDF)