What is the Axial Spondyloarthritis Playbook
- Providing a “best practice” approach to support you in reducing the time to diagnosis in axial SpA locally, as well as the essential support that patients should receive when they are diagnosed.
- Developed and reviewed in collaboration with health care professionals working in axial SpA and the NASS team.
- Organised along key sections of the pathway and provides checklists against which you can assess your current practice.
- Focusses on data as a tool to understand current performance, assess unmet need and measure improvement.
- Resource links take you to national and standardised guidance, templates, tools and case studies.
- You can review the checklists, set your priorities and collect local data.
Access the Axial SpA Playbook
You can download the Axial SpA Playbook in a PDF format, including links to all the resources you need to reduce the time to diagnosis.
Upcoming webinars
Following the launch on 28 April 2025, we will be looking to deliver some webinars focussing on specific parts of the Playbook. These will be led by subject matter experts in the specific area.
To sign up to hear more and to let us know which areas you would like to hear more about please complete the form.
Online tutorial
Professor Raj Sengupta, Consultant Rheumatologist at the Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases in Bath, will be running through the process for using the Axial SpA Playbook which will be added to this page shortly. This will be based on his presentation at Rheumatology 2025.
