Quality Improvement
The National Diabetes Audit (NDA) provides a comprehensive picture of diabetes care and outcomes for adults in England and Wales. The NDA supports improvements in the quality of diabetes care enabling participating NHS services and organisations to:
- Assess local practice against NICE guidelines
- Compare their care and outcomes with similar services and organisations
- Identify gaps or shortfalls that are priorities for improvement
- Identify and share best practice
Please have a look at our Health Improvement Plan for more information.
Quality Improvement Collaborative
We are now seeking to recruit ALL diabetes specialist teams in England and Wales to collaborate to improve the care for people with type 1 diabetes.
To provide a common focus and to address a key recommendation of the National Diabetes Audit, this work will focus on increasing the use of insulin pumps, including hybrid close loop. We will seek to implement NICE-recommended care, and in doing so, to reduce inequalities.
How to apply?
There is no charge to join the NDA Collaborative, but we do require a commitment to engage with the webinars to develop quality improvement opportunities and evaluate service changes.
If you are interested in participating in this quality improvement opportunity for specialist diabetes services, please complete an online application form as soon as possible.
Should you have any questions about this, please email nda@diabetes.org.uk or download the following document for further information.
2020-2023 Quality Improvement Collaboratives
These QICs had for aims to:
• help people with type 1 diabetes keep their blood glucose levels within target
• reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease in people with type 2 diabetes.
A summary report for the type 1 and type 2 diabetes QICs was published in October 2002. There's also a report on the work conducted to enhance the use of National Diabetes Audit data by clinical networks.
2017- 2020 QICs
These QICs focused on 4 areas: care for inpatients, for pregnancy and pre-conception, foot care and transition from young people to adult diabetes services.
Download the overall 2017-20 QIC summary report (PDF, 1.5MB) detailing the aims, interventions tested, lessons learnt, results and conclusions across the 4 Quality Improvement Collaboratives.
Download the individual report for each of the QICs for more information, including case studies from different healthcare providers:
- National Diabetes Inpatient Audit (NaDIA) QIC report 2017-2018 (PDF, 1.3MB)
- National Pregnancy in Diabetes (NPID) Audit QIC report 2017-2019 (PDF, 1.7MB)
- National Diabetes Foot Care Audit (NDFA) QIC report 2018-2020 (PDF, 1.3MB)
- National Diabetes Transition Audit (NDTA) QIC report 2019-2020 (PDF, 1.6MB)
