Long term conditions

• Diabetes
• Inflammatory Bowel Disease
• Pain Database
• Renal services
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Diabetes

Diabetes is a chronic condition affecting over 2 million people in England and Wales. It is caused by an inability to use or produce the hormone insulin and leads to a rise in blood glucose. The National Diabetes Audit is considered to be the largest annual clinical audit in the world, providing an infrastructure for the collation, analysis, benchmarking and feedback of local data across the NHS. More

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Inflammatory Bowel Disease

The UK Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Audit seeks to improve the quality and safety of care for IBD patients in hospitals throughout the UK. It will do this by assessing individual patient care and service resources and organisation against the National Service Standards for the care of patients. More

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Pain Database

The Pain Database improvement programme will establish the provision of specialist chronic pain services in both secondary and primary healthcare settings and set-up a national data-set where case-mix, patient outcomes and patient experience data will be recorded. This will allow the benchmarking of services, continuous quality assurance, comparisons of case mix and provide detailed information for future service improvements and development. More

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Renal services  

The National Kidney Care Audit is the latest clinical audit to be commissioned and will help identify the best ways to improve renal services As well as all adults receiving haemodialysis, the audit also covers children and young people. The audit measures two distinct areas, both of which have a big impact on the quality of life for kidney patients: Vascular Access and Patient Transport. More

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