What is involved in participating?
The NAPT project
team provided registered services with a common format to
collect audit data. Individual services then collected the
data which was analysed centrally. Individual
services received service reports which included comparative
findings, enabling them to benchmark their performance and identify
areas where they are performing well and areas for improvement.
Data collection tools
We developed 4 data
collection tools:
- Contextual data about services
- Therapist’s questionnaire about qualifications / professional
background.
- Audit of clients completing therapy between 1 September and 30
November 2010
- Service user satisfaction questionnaire and measure of
therapeutic alliance – for more information about this tool see
Our resources
For more information about
how the audit tools and methodology were developed see Pilot of the National Audit of Psychological
Therapies 2009.
Audit timetable
- From April 2010: Recruitment of
sites
Recruitment for the
audit has now closed.
- May/June 2010 – Feb 2011: Data collection
Data
collection is now complete.
This took place in stages
using our 4 data collection tools:
- Contextual Questionnaire - a one-off questionnaire
about the service, completed between May and October
2010.
- Therapists' Questionnaire - each therapist completed a one-off
questionnaire that asks about their training, experience and the
therapies they deliver. This was completed between August
and December 2010.
- Retrospective Audit - an audit of every service
user who ended therapy between 1 September and 30
November 2010. In some services, data was taken from case
notes, in other services, data was extracted from existing
databases. This was completed between December 2010 and
February 2011.
- Service User Satisfaction Survey - a brief survey was sent out
to service users by the participating service on a census date
in October or November 2010. Free-post
envelopes were supplied so that service users could
return the survey anonymously and confidentially to the NAPT
project team.
- March – November 2011: Data analysis and report
production
The NAPT project team have
completed data analysis and sent out a report for each service in
November 2011. A National Report was also being produced.
- November 2011: Publication of national report
Getting started
The data collection
process began in May 2010. Registration has now
closed.
Services were asked
to consider the following points in preparation for the
audit:
- Selecting relevant services – please see the decision tree for
clarification of which services are eligible to
participate
- Obtaining approval to participate from the relevant people in
your organisation
- Thinking about how to co-ordinate the audit
- Thinking of ways of publicising the audit to all
stakeholders
- Considering the role of individual therapists
- Adapting existing data collection systems
- Links with IAPT and data extraction from systems such as
IAPTUS, PC-MIS
- Preparing for potential problems
If you want further
information on any of these points please contact us.
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