ROYAL COLLEGE OF PAEDIATRICS & CHILD HEALTH (RCPCH): The primary aims of the National Paediatric Diabetes Audit (NDPA) are to facilitate health providers and commissioners to measure and improve quality of care, and to contribute to

Data-sharing agreement from NHS Digital registers of approved data releases, 2014–2019. Evidence status: source reported.

Organisation: ROYAL COLLEGE OF PAEDIATRICS & CHILD HEALTH (RCPCH)
Source reference: DARS-NIC-34964-S2V0M-v1.2
Jurisdiction: England
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0, subject to NHS England terms and exclusions

Register reference: DARS-NIC-34964-S2V0M-v1.2
Agreement period: not published to no end date published
For commercial purposes (as marked in the register): Not stated
Release files listed by NHS England: 3

Data approved

Hospital Episode Statistics Admitted Patient Care

Objective, as published

The primary aims of the National Paediatric Diabetes Audit (NDPA) are to facilitate health providers and commissioners to measure and improve quality of care, and to contribute to the continuing improvement of outcomes for children and young people with diabetes and their families. Overarching priorities are to: • consult and engage with clinicians to enable collection of a more clinically meaningful and useful dataset • to increase unit participation rate by using a regional network approach to data collection • to support clinicians in developing local action plans to use their audit data to improve quality of care and patient outcomes • to capture the patient experience and enable units to respond and improve, based on feedback • to enable patients to be followed throughout their care journey and enable audit data to be linked to the National Paediatric Diabetes register under development by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) • to maximise the use and availability of audit data for further analysis • to work with the suppliers of the National Diabetes Audit (adult) to jointly capture information and outcomes throughout a child’s transition from paediatric to adult care. Reports previously provided from this audit have had a significant impact on the standards and practices affecting those suffering with Diabetes. Data collected for audit is used for • Providing profiles for individual hospitals in comparison to other hospitals, and to the country as…

Expected benefits, as published

The NPDA seeks to drive quality improvement through the continued year on year assessment of paediatric diabetes care and outcomes performance by specialist diabetes units, as measured against acknowledged standards of diabetes care for the previous 12 years. By securing data from 100% of paediatric diabetes units in England and Wales, the NPDA is able to make national recommendations to improve the care and outcomes of children with diabetes. For the last five years the audit has shown steady year on year improvements in adherence to care processes and in measured outcomes. Completion rates of all seven key health checks has improved nationally, from 6.7% in 2011-12, 12.1% in 2012-13, 16.1% in 2013-14, to 25.4% in 2014-15. The national HbA1C level have decreased year on year from to 71 m…

Source: https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/2019/http://content.digital.nhs.uk/media/23861/Release-Register-December-16---February-17/xls/Release_Register__December_16_-_February_17.xlsx. Captured 2026-10-30.

Limitations: Agreement as recorded in an NHS Digital register of approved data releases (2014–2019), retrieved from the UK Government Web Archive. That register lists releases made in its period and the agreement's purpose statement as it then stood; it gives no agreement dates, and the agreement may have changed since. Imported only where a paper quotes a reference no current register holds.