National Diabetes Audit (Gestational Diabetes Mellitus Audit)

The Health and Social Care Act 2012 (the Act) gives NHS England statutory powers, under section 259(1)(a), to require data from health or social care bodies, or organisations that provide publicly funded health or adult social care in England, where it has been directed to establish an information system by the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care.

The data, as specified by NHS England in this published Data Provision Notice, is required to support a direction from the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care to NHS England. Therefore, organisations that are in scope of the notice are legally required, under section 259(5) of the Act, to provide the data in the form and manner specified below.

Under section 259(1)(a) of the Health and Social Care Act 2012, this Notice is served in accordance with the procedure published as part of the NHS England duty under section 259(8) on the following persons:

• general practices in England
• all maternity units with a joint diabetes and maternity service within NHS trusts in England.

Data Provision Notice National Diabetes Audit (Gestational Diabetes Mellitus Audit)

• NHS funded services delivering diabetes structured patient education

Diabetes care means responsibility for overseeing the general care of people with diabetes including annual care checks, care planning and review of education needs.

Under section 259(5) of the Health and Social Care Act 2012 the organisation types specified above must comply with the form, manner and period requirements below.

NHS England has been directed by the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care under section 254 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012 to establish and operate a system for the collection and analysis of the information specified for this service. The direction and accompanying requirements specification are published on the NHS England website.

This information is required by NHS England under section 259(1)(a) of the Health and Social Care Act 2012..

In line with section 259(5) of the Act, all organisations in scope, in England, must comply with the requirement and provide information to NHS England in the form, manner and period specified in this Data Provision Notice.

This Notice is issued in accordance with the procedure published as part of an NHS England duty under section 259(8).

Patients that have registered a Type 1 objection with their General Practice will not have data from their GP record shared with NHS England for this collection. The Type 1 objection prevents an individual’s confidential patient information from being shared outside of their General Practice except when it is being used for the purposes of their direct care.

The National Data Opt-Out will not apply to the submission of data to NHS England for this collection as the Data Provision Notice is a legal requirement with which the participating organisations must comply. Where NHS England disseminates data, the National Data Opt-Out will be applied in accordance with the national data opt-out policy:

The data is extracted from general practices on a quarterly basis via GPES.

Indicative timings for extractions are:

• August: collection of data from January to June
• November: collection of data from January to September
• February: collection of data from January to December
• May: collection of full audit year data.

The schedule for the maternity services dataset submissions and extractions are available on this webpage.

General practices and maternity services are notified directly of the collection periods and timeframes, and these will also be advertised on the NDA GDM collection webpage.