National Early Inflammatory Arthritis Audit (NEIAA)

Programme overview

The National Early Inflammatory Arthritis Audit (NEIAA) is being carried out by the British Society for Rheumatology, with support from Kings College London and Netsolving . HQIP recommissioned this audit on behalf of NHS England and Welsh Government in 2017 to improve the quality of care for people living with inflammatory arthritis across England and Wales.

Additional information on all HQIP-commissioned projects is available on the NHS Trusts page, which includes the recommendations repository, infographics compendium, 9 month publication schedule, impact report, and National Clinical Audit and Enquiries Directory. For further information about this project, please contact the project team directly using the contact details listed in the ‘Supplier Info’ section above.

Patient & Public Engagement case study: National Early Inflammatory Arthritis Audit (NEIAA) case study of their winning entry for 2020 Richard Driscoll Memorial Award (RDMA) can be read in full here.

Their entry from the 2021 Richard Driscoll Memorial Award (RDMA) can be read in full here.

Their winning entry for 2022 Richard Driscoll Memorial Award (RDMA) can be read in full here.

NEIAA Clinic Visit Framework (Exploring a patient’s journey) can be viewed here.

Accessing data

Data collected on behalf of HQIP by all NCAPOP projects is routinely reported and these reports are available in the ‘Related resources’ section.

For regularly updated dynamic reporting of audit data, follow the link in the HQIP Directory in the column called ‘Link to dynamic reporting’.

The reported data is also placed on the data.gov.uk website.

For details of how to apply for data that is not in the public domain, please see HQIP’s data access webpages.

Details of the contracts that HQIP awards are available at: www.gov.uk/contracts-finder.