Aimola, L.
Gordon-Brown, J.
Etherington, A.
Zalewska, K.
Cooper, S.
Crawford, M. J.
Article History
Received: 4 September 2018
Accepted: 20 December 2018
First Online: 9 January 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The National Audit of Schizophrenia (NAS) was commissioned by the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP) as part of the National Clinical Audit Programme (NCA). As part of NCA, all Mental Health Trusts in England and Wales were expected to take part in NAS. Consent was not required from the patients to publish the audit data in the audit’s main report or for research purposes and the data were collected by the audit team in such a manner that the patients could not be directly identified.
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