What is the National Audit of Schizophrenia?
The National Audit of Schizophrenia (NAS) is an initiative of
the Royal College of Psychiatrist's Centre for Quality
Improvement (CCQI). It is part of the National Clinical Audit and
Patient Outcomes Programme (NCAPOP), funded and managed by the
Health Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP).
NAS will enable clinicians who treat people with schizophrenia
in the community to assess the quality of their prescribing of
antipsychotic drugs and of their monitoring of service users’
physical health. It will also support them to monitor service
users’ experience of treatment and its outcome plus carers’
satisfaction with information and support.
Local services will be able to compare their performance with
national standards and to benchmark with other services. They will
identify what they do well and where there is potential to improve.
Wide participation in the audit will also create an overview of the
quality of care being provided nationally.
It is expected that all Mental Health Trusts in England and
Wales who provide community based care and treatment to service
users with schizophrenia will take part.
Sixty-three Trusts have registered (list
of registered Trusts).
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