National Neonatal Audit Programme

Some babies in the UK need specialist care when they are born. They may be born too early, with a low birth weight or have a medical condition. Since 2006, our clinical audit aims to improve care to these babies.
NNAP 2024 photo competition winner. Photo courtesy of Nick Furlong and Gemma Hextall

Published in October 2024, our summary report highlights key findings from data collected in 2023, and includes a pull out 'results at a glance'. We also present an extended analysis report, next steps and resources for improvement, a data line of sight table plus collated recommendations from previous years' reports.

This photo from our summary report's cover is courtesy of Nick and Gemma.

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NNAP assesses whether babies admitted to neonatal units in England, Scotland and Wales receive consistent high quality care, and identify areas for quality improvement.
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This interactive dashboard shows data on the 10 NNAP performance metrics, and is updated each month. You can view results by neonatal unit, Integrated Care System / Health Board (Wales and Scotland) and neonatal network.
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This interactive dashboard (also known as NNAP Online) shows data from the annual report, and is produced from a data extract taken in March each year. It includes data from 2014 to 2023.
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For parents and carers

Our short animated video and postcards, and our annual report Your baby's care, are especially for parents and carers.

These explain how we ask doctors and nurses to record data about your baby, such as temperature, screening for eye disorders and consultation with you, and describe areas that are good and that could be better.