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14/12/23

14 December 2023

Support for service teams: pulmonary rehabilitation

Pulmonary rehabilitation: V5 dataset now open!

The new V5 dataset for patients assessed for PR from 1 April 2025 is now live on the webtool. You can still enter data for patients assessed for PR 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 praudit@rcp.ac.uk to be included in your ‘safe sender’ contact list. 

Supporting documentation

Introductory information 
  • PR user guide - detailed support for accessing and using the webtool as well as advice on information governance, data collection and submission. 
  • PR welcome pack - detailed information for new users of the webtool as well as links to other useful materials.
  • PR frequently asked questions - find answers to the common questions PR services have about the NRAP clinical audit. 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.

Data submission documentation

Video support

All services in England and Wales who deliver pulmonary rehabilitation to patients with the following respiratory conditions, are eligible to participate:

  • Asthma
  • Bronchiectasis
  • COPD
  • Interstitial lung disease
  • Long Covid
  • Other chronic respiratory disease
  • Pre/post thoracic surgery (including lung volume reduction)
  • Pulmonary hypertension
  • Chronic heart failure.

To register your hospital, please complete and send the registration and Caldicott Guardian approval forms below to praudit@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 refrain from sending 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 pulmonary rehabilitation specific HI 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.

Service mergers and name changes

If your service mergers with another or there is a change to the provider name, please complete and send the form below to praudit@rcp.ac.uk.

Patient consent

Patients assessed for PR up to 31 March 2024: For a patient's data to be included in the audit, their consent must be obtained using this form.

Patients assessed for PR from 1 April 2024: The National Data Opt-Out scheme applies to services in England. Services in Wales will need to follow their local data opt-out procedures.