National Pregnancy in Diabetes Audit Guidance for using the Summary Data Tables in the Clinical Audit Platform

The NPID audit measures the quality of pre-gestational diabetes care in pregnancy against National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guideline based criteria and the outcomes of pre-gestational diabetic pregnancy. The NPID audit is part of the National Diabetes Audit (NDA) programme commissioned by the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP) and managed by NHS England (formerly known as the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC)), in collaboration with Diabetes UK.

The introduction of summary tables (sometimes referred to as management reports) to the NPID audit was required to increase local monitoring of service performance. The summary tables allow users to check on their performance as soon as their completed records are entered. This will enable participants to regularly check and improve on their audit results throughout the year and make changes to their practices without waiting for the annual report. The tables will reflect ‘live’ data entered and therefore encourage the prompt entry of patient data to obtain instant results.

The tables will act as an important quality improvement tool and will empower users to ask questions of their results and rectify anomalies earlier than was previously allowable.

The NPID team have been approached several times to come up with a solution to manage the results of the audit and the main feedback has been ‘waiting too long for results’. The summary tables aim to partially rectify this issue and allow users to achieve a personalised dataset for local use as and when they need it.

The tables can be used for local monitoring of the NPID data and to present up to date results within your Trust. The tables can be taken to performance and quality meetings or any other relevant internal meeting were audit participation and results are discussed. They can be used as a tool to aid with local audits or to compare results throughout the course of an audit cycle.

These tables are the first of their kind being used as part of an NHS England audit and we hope that they will be of benefit to audit participants.

The tables can be used for local monitoring of the NPID data and to present up to date results within your Trust. The tables can be taken to performance and quality meetings or any other relevant internal meeting were audit participation and results are discussed. They can be used as a tool to aid with local audits or to compare results throughout the course of an audit cycle.

These tables are the first of their kind being used as part of an NHS England audit and we hope that they will be of benefit to audit participants.