National Diabetes Survey

The RCPCH has successfully completed an NHS Diabetes commissioned project to find out the number of children and young people under the age of 18 who have diabetes in England. 

The project report is titled, Growing Up With Diabetes: Children and Young People with Diabetes in England. It is available below for download, or to order a hard copy please email Zaki Kramer.

 

National Diabetes Survey - Growing up with Diabetes

The project was in collaboration with:

The project was supported by the National Clinical Directors for Diabetes and for Children, Young People and Maternity and the clinical lead was Julie Edge.


Survey Report

Growing up with diabetes report Growing up with Diabetes report (March 2009)(2.19 MB)

 

Background Information

Diabetes Survey 2009 Letter v2.0.pdf Diabetes Survey 2009 letter v2.0 (73.4 KB)

Diabetes in Children and Young people in Wales, Prevalence and outcome Diabetes in Children and Young People in Wales, Prevalence and Outcome
(October 2009) - not an RCPCH document (1.12 MB)


Essential Documents

Inclusion Criteria v2.0 Inclusion Criteria v2.0 (12.4 KB)

hard copy survey v6.0 Adult Hard copy survey v6.0 Adult - for dataset purpose (425 KB)

hard copy survey v6.0 Paeds Hard copy survey v6.0 Paeds - for dataset purpose (426 KB)


The survey was an important first step to provide the data needed to inform the commissioning of resources for diabetes care and drive service improvements.

As well as establishing the total number of children and young people with diabetes the project is informing the development of the next stage of the National Diabetes Audit and discussions regarding the potential establishment of a national register of childhood diabetes.


Data Collection

DATA COLLECTION HAS NOW FINISHED

Links to the online survey form were sent to lead Paediatric Diabetes Clinician and the lead Clinician for Adult Diabetes in every hospital in England.


Contact

If you are having trouble accessing the report or would like a hard copy please email Zaki Kramer.


Related Project

Survey of Insulin Pump use in England, May 2010
This is the first survey of insulin pump use in England. The survey will identify the rate of uptake and variations in provision among both children and adults.

Contact
For more information contact Dr Bob Young or call 0161 206 5157


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