The National Asthma and COPD Audit Programme in East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust – The first year

Background: –The National Asthma and COPD Audit Programme (NACAP) aims to drive improvements in the quality of care and services provided forRespiratory patients in England and Wales (RCP / BTS 2017) –Part of this programme is the continuous audit of admission to hospital for those patients with COPD –This commenced in April 2017 and currently is scheduled to continue until March 2019 –Best Practice Tariff (BPT) was introduced to improve the proportion of patients who receive specialist respiratory input to their care within 24 hours of admission and completion of a COPD discharge bundle. Aims: –Primary aim was to deliver on the COPD BPT –Secondary aim was to improve the inpatient experience and deliver evidence based care –This would be evidenced by length of stay, readmission rates and inpatient mortality rates Methods: Recruited Associate Practitioners, Registered Nurse and Physiotherapist to into Specialist Practioner Roles. Results: Development of an Inpatient Respiratory Practitioner Team has enabled the Trust to achieve the required 60% for BPT by quarter 3 (Oct-Dec 2017) and thus qualification for the enhanced tariff