Posted on January 19th 2026
Data shows standards of care remain high, despite the rising demand on services
The UK’s specialist PH service is the envy of the world, and the latest National Audit of Pulmonary Hypertension has once again confirmed that it delivers high standards of care for patients.
Each year, the audit measures the quality of care across the network of specialist centres by asking them to provide data that is then measured against a set of 15 agreed standards.
All of the adult UK centres, plus Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital, take part – and the 16th Annual Report shows that the services are busier than ever. Between April 2024 and March 2025 (the period covered by the audit), more patients were managed that at any time since its inception. Centres saw a 20% increase in new patients being referred with suspected PH compared to the year before, but despite these rising demands, performance against the national standards remained strong.
