National Diabetes Foot Care Audit Dashboard (01 April 2018 to 31 March 2024)

The NDFA looks at the following key areas:

• Structures: are the nationally recommended care structures in place for the management of diabetes related foot disease?
• Processes: does the treatment of active diabetes related foot disease comply with nationally recommended guidance?
• Outcomes: are the outcomes of diabetes related foot disease optimised?

Results in the dashboard are broken down in 2 main ways:

1. By specialist foot care service: The specialist foot care service is a team of diabetes foot care specialists (also known as a multi-disciplinary foot care team or service, MDFT/MDFS) that perform the first expert assessment of the foot ulcer. In the dashboard, users can drill-down from region (e.g. East of England) to healthcare provider (NHS trust or local health board (LHB) e.g. East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust) to the specialist foot care service (e.g. MDT Foot Clinic at Hertford County Hospital).
2. By healthcare commissioner: Healthcare commissioners are bodies such as integrated care boards (ICBs) or primary care networks (PCNs) that assess, plan, prioritise, purchase and monitor healthcare services. In the dashboard, users can drill-down from region (e.g. North East and Yorkshire) to ICB (e.g. NHS South Yorkshire ICB) to PCN (e.g. Rother Valley South PCN).

The data files which support the dashboard can be downloaded from the 'Resources' section of this page. These data files include the measures presented in the dashboard, split by national, regional and provider level for foot care services; as well as ICB/LHB and PCN level for commissioners. To reduce file size, data has been split by financial year and demographics.

Disclosure control has been applied to mitigate the risk of patient identification. Zeros are reported, and all numbers are rounded to the nearest 5, unless the number is 1 to 7, in which case it is rounded to 5. This allows for more granular data to be made available. Rounded numbers are used to calculate percentages therefore numbers may not sum as expected. Percentages are not calculated where the rounded denominator is 20 or less, and where numbers are small percentages are volatile and should be treated with caution.