I hope they are saying this. I hope it is with an indulgent smile.
So this year’s audit upload
period has arrived. From the 20th of June to the 12th of August CCGs
will be working hard to support their practices to upload information to the
National Diabetes Audit.
There is lots of easy to read
information on what practices have to do on the NDA website.
From what practices tell me, it
takes about 10 – 20 minutes to participate and this year the process has been
made much easier for practices using Vision.
I get questions from CCGs and Practices
about “consent”. A letter that went
out to all practices in May makes the position very clear – “The NDA has
approval from the Health Research Authority Confidentiality Advisory Group, to
collect patient identifiable data under Section 251."; “This means there
are no legal obstacles to services participating in the NDA”. Therefore patients do not have to be
individually consented but posters should be placed in surgeries and these can
be downloaded from the NDA website.
Anyone can see
which practices uploaded data for last year’s audit by looking at the CVD Primary Intelligence Packs produced by the National Cardiovascular Intelligence
Network.The NDA provides an essential overview of diabetes care in England and enables high quality commissioning. if we didn't have it we'd all end up trying to invent it. Diabetes is one of the six priority clinical areas of the CCG Improvement and Assessment Framework (CCG IAF) and CCGs with less than 25% GP practice participation will be categorised as ‘greatest need for improvement’ due to an inability to make a reliable assessment.
I was talking to a CCG who has
had 100% participation for the last 2 years.
They were excitedly telling me how impactful and helpful having robust
data was to their local diabetes improvement plans but until then had not
realised the value.
I am really looking
forward to having this conversation with more CCGs and Health Care Professionals. This audit and all the tools are funded. It is so valuable. So go for it.
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