Who should take part

As one of the audits within the National Clinical Audit and Patient Outcomes Programme (NCAPOP), participation in the National Diabetes Inpatient Safety Audit (NDISA) is a requirement in the NHS standard contract for acute hospitals with inpatient services and will form part of your trust’s Quality Accounts. All secondary care NHS acute hospitals in England are eligible to participate. Registration is at trust level not hospital level.

By taking part in the audit, services will benefit from:

• an easy to use, validated approach to the collection and analysis of quality monitoring information covering the four most common, preventable, diabetic inpatient harms
• regional and service level benchmarked reports. These can be used for service assurance, prioritisation of areas for improvement and measurement of the effectiveness of improvement initiatives *
• National Diabetes Inpatient Safety Audit – monthly and annual reports *
• access to download your hospital’s completed audit records to use for local analysis and benchmarking against national and regional published data.  (Please note that this includes all data items submitted via the secure web entry system but does not include any information from linked data)