Your baby's care: Measuring standards and improving neonatal care - guide to NNAP for parents and carers

The National Neonatal Audit Programme (NNAP) looks at the care babies receive when they are born early or are unwell. It helps neonatal units across the UK improve care for babies who need specialist treatment.

Your baby's care is our annual guide for parents and carers. You can also watch our short animation, download a poster, read our privacy notices and find out more about the audit.

Read 'Your baby's care'

You can read the guide below or download a copy in English or Welsh at the bottom of this page.

The guide includes photos and quotes from families who took part in our photo competition. Thank you to everyone who shared their experiences.


Watch our short video

This animation explains how NNAP helps neonatal units improve their services and how we make national recommendations for neonatal care.


Understand how we use your baby's data

While your baby is receiving care in a neonatal unit, staff record information in an electronic patient record. This information helps staff care for your baby and supports the running of health services.

NNAP uses this information to help improve care and outcomes for babies in the future.

See the NNAP privacy notices

Find out more about the audit

Visit the NNAP home page to learn more about the audit. You'll find our latest summary report, previous reports and dashboards with detailed data.

We also produce a poster for every neonatal unit that takes part in NNAP. These posters show how each unit is performing against selected audit measures and what actions they are taking in response to the results. You can view your unit's poster using our NNAP poster generator.

If you have any questions about the audit, please email nnap@rcpch.ac.uk