National Neonatal Audit Programme (NNAP) data and data access

NNAP collects data from neonatal units from across England, Scotland and Wales and reports annually. See below for information about the data collection process and to find out how you can access NNAP data for research.

NNAP Online

This is our interactive reporting tool which provides access to audit results.

You can use NNAP Online to:

View an overall annual summary report for a chosen neonatal unit or network for 2014 to 2020 NNAP results
View and compare the results for specific NNAP audit measures for different units, unit designations or networks
View, via the outlier analysis section, whether a 2020 result for a unit or network is outside of the expected range
Download a unit specific poster of NNAP results for display in your unit

Data files and access

Data files from previous audit years are available on the following pages:

Summary report on 2022 data

Annual reports on data 2010-2021

They are also available on data.gov.uk.

Data from the NNAP need careful interpretation. It should not be considered in isolation when assessing standards of care. To help you interpret the data, please read the annual report for the relevant year.

If you are interested in accessing unpublished data from the NNAP, you can download our data access policy below.

National Clinical Audit Benchmarking (NCAB) project

NCAB provides a visual snapshot of individual Trust audit data set against individual national benchmarks. It is a collaboration between HQIP and CQC, which aims to enhance the way inspectors, medical directors, local clinical audit teams and others engage, interact with and share clinical audit data.

NNAP submit results for English and Welsh units to this project annually.

Find out more about NCAB