What is the National Audit of Psychological Therapies?
The National Audit of Psychological
Therapies for Anxiety and Depression aims to promote access,
appropriateness, acceptability and positive outcomes of treatment
for those suffering from depression and anxiety.
Data collection took place between June
2010 and February 2011. We have just finished analysing the
data and publishing the findings. The audit was open
to all NHS-funded services and therapists providing psychological
therapies for people with anxiety and depression in England and
Wales. It included adults over the age of 18 who are receiving
psychological therapy services in the community. The audit is
working with both IAPT and non-IAPT sites.
It engages healthcare professionals in a
systematic evaluation of their clinical practice against standards
for best practice. Local services are able to benchmark their
performance and identify where they are performing well and where
there is potential to improve the quality of treatment and care
they provide. Wide participation in the audit also creates an
overview of the quality of care being provided nationally.
The National Audit of Psychological
Therapies (NAPT) is funded by the Healthcare Quality Improvement
Partnership (HQIP) and is an initiative of the College Centre for
Quality Improvement (CCQI).
The project is part of the National
Clinical Audit programme and trusts are required by the Department
of Health to report their participation in the audit in their
Quality Account.
The
findings are now available following the launch of our National
Report at the New Savoy Conference.
Services who participated in
the audit will receive individual service reports and action
planning toolkits. If you have received your local report and have
any questions, please check our Service Report FAQ's, or contact the NAPT
Project Team.
HQIP have agreed to fund the National
Audit of Psychological Therapies for a further 2 years. Data
collection for the re-audit will begin in late 2012.
All of our reports
are now available online:
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