National Diabetes Audit (NDA)

People with diabetes should receive annual care checks each year and should be achieving a target for their blood glucose, cholesterol and blood pressure values; these annual checks and targets are outlined in the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) Clinical Guidelines and Quality Standards.  

The main NDA, known as the core audit, collects information from general practices and specialist diabetes out-patient services to look at whether people with diabetes are receiving their annual care checks, are achieving their treatment targets and looks at their health outcomes along with whether they have been offered and attended structured education.  

The audit findings are published in a national report as well as in general practice, Clinical Commissioning Group and specialist diabetes out-patient service level reports.  

The NDA helps improve the quality of diabetes care by enabling participating NHS services and organisations to:  

• assess local practice against National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (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  

• provide comprehensive national pictures of diabetes care and outcomes in England and Wales  

Through participation in the audit, local services can benchmark their performance, identify where they are performing well, and improve the quality of treatment and care they provide.  

A Quality Improvement Toolkit has been developed in collaboration with the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) to help practices use their diabetes data to improve services.  

Diabetes UK manages Quality Improvement Collaboratives (QIC) which set local aims to improve diabetes care. Using audit data, specialist services work together with other providers to develop skills, share learning and improve clinical practice.  

For more information visit Core National Diabetes Audit.

Direction  

View the National Diabetes Audit Directions.  

Legal basis for the collection of the data  

The Health and Social Care Act 2012 (HSCA 2012) section 254. 

Data Provision Notice  

National diabetes audit (core audit) Data Provision Notice.  

Legal basis for the provision of data  

The Health and Social Care Act 2012 (HSCA 2012) section 259. 

Legal basis for processing the data 

The UK GDPR Article 6 lawful basis for the processing of the personal data within this collection falls under: 

• Article 6(1)(e) processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller 

The UK GDPR Article 9 condition for processing special categories of personal data within the collection falls under: 

• Article 9 2 (h) processing is necessary for the provision of health care or treatment, and for the management of health care systems or services

Transparency notice  

View the Transparency Notice.

Lag time from collection to dissemination  

Contains 15 months’ worth of data, such as 01/01/2019 to 31/03/2020, so in this example the lag will be 9.5 months.  

Frequency  

Once per year 

Commissioning extracts specification  

National Diabetes Audit Dataset Specification.  

Suppression rules 

To be confirmed.