Launching ANZRAP: A New Chapter in Respiratory Health for Australia & New Zealand

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We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the Australia & New Zealand Respiratory Audit Program (ANZRAP)—complete with a fresh new brand identity and a redesigned website—backed by Monash University. This initiative marks an important step forward in improving the care, outcomes, and services for people living with respiratory illnesses across Australia and New Zealand.

What is ANZRAP?

ANZRAP is a long-term research and quality improvement program that commenced in 2025. Its core aim is to take a bi-national, coordinated approach to enhancing clinical care, health service delivery, and outcomes for people with asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
Key features include:

• Benchmarking and auditing across participating hospitals to measure performance against national and international clinical care standards.
• Focusing first on hospital admissions data for COPD and asthma to understand quality of care, risk factors, variations in treatment and outcomes.
• Supporting sites with training, data-collection tools, governance support, and feedback to drive continuous quality improvement.
• Co-designing interventions and solutions with participating sites, so that change is practical, context-sensitive, and meaningful.

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Why This Matters

Respiratory illnesses—especially asthma and COPD—represent a major public health burden in both Australia and New Zealand. Patients, clinicians, hospitals, and health systems all grapple with challenges: variation in care, gaps in outcomes, and inequities in who receives appropriate treatment. With ANZRAP, there’s now a pathway for systematic auditing, comparison (benchmarking), and targeted improvement.
By providing data and insights, ANZRAP will help:

• Identify where care isn’t meeting standards.
• Highlight variation among hospitals and regions.
• Empower clinicians and health services to implement improvements.
• Advocate for resources and policy where needs are greatest.

The New Brand & Website

Part of what makes this launch special is the brand and website we’ve built to embody ANZRAP’s mission and values. Here are some of the design and functional highlights:

• Clear, trustworthy design: the brand conveys professionalism, clarity, and collaboration—all essential to building confidence among clinical, research, hospital and patient stakeholders.
• User-centred navigation: info about COPD, asthma, participating hospitals, how to join, governance, and research people are easy to find. This helps make the program accessible to hospitals, clinicians, researchers and anyone interested.
• Transparency on partners and people: showing the people behind ANZRAP (steering committee, research team, working parties) helps build trust, emphasises credibility.
• Calls-to-action built in: “Join ANZRAP” is front and centre, making it easy for hospitals to find out how to participate.

Responsive & modern web design: ensuring access and usability across devices and locations—important for clinics, hospitals, and stakeholders both in big metro centres and rural/regional areas.

The Role of Monash University

ANZRAP is hosted by Monash University’s School of Translational Medicine, which provides the academic, clinical, and logistical backbone required. The partnership brings together research expertise, clinical practice insights, governance, and the capacity to scale.
With distinguished respiratory physicians, clinical researchers, and quality improvement experts involved, the program is positioned not just to audit, but to genuinely improve outcomes.

What’s Next

Now that the website and brand are live, what happens next?

1. Engagement with hospitals and sites – Public and private hospitals delivering respiratory care will be invited to join. Sites will nominate leads and data teams, and receive support to participate.
2. Data collection begins – Retrospective audit data will start to be collected for COPD and asthma admissions, enabling benchmarking and insights into care variation.
3. Quality improvement interventions – The audit is not just data gathering; part of the plan is to translate findings into local, co-designed improvements, such as better discharge bundles, inhaler technique programs, smoking cessation support, etc.
4. Ongoing updates – As more sites join, as data accrues, the website will continue to be updated with participating hospitals, updates from working parties (COPD, asthma), governance, funding partners etc.

How You Can Be Part of It

• If you are part of a hospital, clinic, or health service that cares for people with COPD or asthma, consider joining ANZRAP. The “Join ANZRAP” section on the website provides all necessary information.
• Researchers, clinicians, and health administrators can follow the updates, engage in working parties, help co-design improvements.
• Stakeholders and funders can support this initiative’s efforts to improve respiratory health across both countries.

Final Thoughts

The launch of ANZRAP, its brand, and its website is more than just a milestone — it’s a foundation for meaningful change. By setting up structures to measure, compare, and improve, ANZRAP has the potential to reduce variation in care, improve clinical outcomes, and ultimately ease the burden of asthma and COPD for patients, families, and health systems in Australia & New Zealand.
We’re proud to be part of bringing this vision to life—and excited for what comes next.