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<p> </p><p>The Health and Social Care information Centre (HSCIC) collects data on
diabetes through the National Diabetes Audit Programme, the Quality Outcomes Framework
(QOF), prescribing and Hospital Episode Statistics (HES).</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The
National Diabetes Audit (Adults) measures the effectiveness of diabetes healthcare
against National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) Clinical Guidelines
and NICE Quality Standards, in England and Wales.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The
National Diabetes Inpatient Audit collects information on the diabetes management
that patients receive whilst in hospital and patients’ experience of the inpatient
stay.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The National Pregnancy in Diabetes Audit which
measures the quality of pre-gestational diabetes care against NICE guideline based
criteria and the outcomes of pre-gestational diabetic pregnancy.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>
</p><p>The National Diabetes Foot Care Audit collects data which enables all diabetes
foot care services to measure their performance against NICE clinical guidelines and
peer units, and to monitor adverse outcomes for people with diabetes who develop diabetic
foot disease.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The patient experience of diabetes services
(pilot collection) measures the diabetes healthcare experiences of people with diabetes
in England and Wales.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The QOF collates information across
a range of measures on people aged 17 or over who have a diagnosis of diabetes at
general practice level.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Data on prescriptions dispensed
in the community in England is available for all drugs dispensed in England within
the prescription cost analysis dataset which includes drugs used for diabetes. The
HSCIC also produce a specific publication – Prescribing for Diabetes in England. The
2005-06 to 2013-14 data was released on 12 August 2014. Prescribing data is also available
also available at clinical commissioning group and area team team level within iView.
GP practice level prescribing data is also available via the HSCIC website at:</p><p>
</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>www.hscic.gov.uk/gpprescribingdata</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>
</p><p>Providers of NHS services in England are required to supply information on
activity to the Secondary Uses Services (SUS) database via commissioning datasets.
Each month an extract from the SUS database is taken and moved into the HES database
which is then made available for analysis. It is possible, therefore, to report activity
on admissions to hospital for patients with a diagnosis of diabetes.</p><p> </p><p>
</p><p>Like the majority of data collections for which the HSCIC is responsible, information
collected focuses on activity that has taken place rather than where patients have
missed appointments.</p>
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