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without diabetes, readmission and mortality rates for people with
diabetes compared with those who do not have diabetes. This
project will involve linking hospital episode statistics and National
Diabetes Audit information.
New work streams
For people with diabetes
Two products are planned for people with diabetes. The first
will give them the opportunity to compare their own personal
treatment experiences and outcomes with similar people who
have diabetes throughout England – a sort of ‘personal diabetes
benchmarking tool’. They will also be able to get information about
the performance of the services they use in comparison to similar
services throughout England.
For primary care providers of diabetes services
NDIS will enable general practices to compare themselves with
other practices and to obtain integrated information about how
patients attending their practice have fared when attending
specialist services or during admission to hospital.
For specialist providers of diabetes care
Systems are being developed to provide ongoing, continuous,
prospective quality audits of foot care services, diabetes pregnancy
services, children and young people’s services and insulin pump
services.
For regulators of diabetes care
NDIS will create reports that summarise compliance with NICE
guidelines, the Diabetes National Service Framework, CEMACH
reports on diabetic pregnancy and other quality standards.
For policy makers
Those responsible for developing policy in Strategic Health
Authorities and the Department of Health will have easy access to
accurate aggregated figures about diabetes incidence, prevalence,
distribution, morbidity, service utilisation, service quality and
associated costs.
Summing up
In conclusion, the National Diabetes Information Service is a
pragmatic development that recognises that there are already a
lot of data in the NHS about diabetes available to be harvested
and repackaged. NDIS will try to ensure that this process results in
products that become essential supports for the delivery of reliable
and quality-assured services to people with diabetes throughout
England.
References
1.
NDIS website:
2.
National Diabetes Audit:
3.
Yorkshire and Humber Public Health Observatory:
4.
Diabetes UK:
5.
NHS Diabetes:
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