About the audit

The National Diabetes Audit (NDA) is considered to be the largest annual clinical audit in the world. It provides an infrastructure for the collation, analysis, benchmarking and feedback of local clinical data to support effective clinical audit across the NHS.

Quality information is vital to the success of organisations implementing the Diabetes National Service Framework (NSF) and key to improving services for people with diabetes. The NDA supports the implementation of the diabetes NSF and aims to improve the quality of patient care by enabling NHS organisations to:

• compare the processes and outcomes of care with similar NHS organisations
• identify and share good practice
• identify gaps or shortfalls in commissioning services
• support identification of progress in meeting Diabetes NSF and NICE guidelines
• provide a local health economy view of care and outcomes where primary and secondary care organisations actively participate.

The NHS Information Centre, working with Diabetes UK and Diabetes Health Intelligence (YHPHO), has been awarded the contract to deliver the National Diabetes Audit for a further three years. By 2014, in addition to the 'core care', the NDA will collect, analyse and report on outcomes of care, experience of care, inpatient diabetes care, pregnancy care in women with diabetes and diabetes foot care.

Note: The Paediatric component of the NDA is now being managed by the Royal College of Paediatrics. Find out more on the RCPCH website