National Paediatric Diabetes Audit (NPDA) - Frequent reporting dashboard

The NDPA collects information on the care and diabetes outcomes of all children and young people receiving care from paediatric diabetes teams in England, Wales and Jersey. The interactive dashboard on this page shows data on our key performance indicators. The dashboard is updated on a quarterly basis.

What is frequent reporting?

In addition to producing detailed annual reports on care received by children and young people from paediatric diabetes units (PDUs), we are asked by our commissioners (the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership - HQIP) to refresh data on key performance metrics at more frequent intervals and publish these outputs in the public domain.

Outputs are refreshed every quarter initially.

View the dashboard

View the Key Performance Indicator dashboard below or on the Microsoft Power BI website.

Download date: 08 October 2024

Dashboard last updated: 08 November 2024

Please note that the data reported in this dashboard have not been subject to the same validation and cleaning processes that the core NPDA dataset is subjected to as part of the production process for annual reports. Results may therefore be subject to change between dashboard updates and before the annual report publication.

Data Files

Data files have been made available from 2024-25 Q2 onwards. Download these below. 

Guidance

We encourage you to read the below frequently asked questions (FAQs) to ensure that you fully understand the dashboard and the data within.

More information about how we collect data can be found on our data submission and transparency and open data pages.

What data is included?

Only data from children and young people whose data have been submitted before the specified download date in each quarter will be included in the reports.

Only data for the NPDA key performance indicators will be refreshed in quarterly outputs. Performance data will be available at several layers, including PDUs, Health Boards/Integrated Care Services, Regional networks, NHS England Regions, and nationally. All other analyses will be performed at the end of the audit year when preparing the annual reports.

Please note that the data is provisional, and may be subject to change between quarterly updates and before the annual report publication.

Why are some data points replaced by asterisks?

Small numbers have been replaced by asterisks in these reports. This has been done to protect patient confidentiality and ensure no patient-identifiable information is published. This is in line with the RCPCH data disclosure risk management policy.

What's the difference between 0% and No data?
  • 0% means that the site scored 0% on that performance indicator.
  • 'No data' means that the selected site submitted no data for that measure.
  • * represents small numbers which have been suppressed/masked for patient confidentiality.

If your selected report states 'No data' for all points, it means that no patient records have been completed in that level of granularity.

When are reports updated?

In the first instance, dashboards will be updated quarterly. The refresh dates will be in May, July, and October.

Why doesn't my PDU's data look right?

If you are concerned that the data displayed in the dashboard does not represent the data entered, please let us know at npda@rcpch.ac.uk. These data are provisional and allow for extra quality assurance where data entry can be corrected before the annual analysis and reporting. 

If your PDU has not submitted any data before the download date, then your data will show 'No data'.

Why has my PDU's data changed drastically between reports?

Quarterly outputs only represent the data submitted by each download date. If data is not submitted prospectively, for example, if more data is submitted in the last quarter, each quarterly report will differ from the previous update and may be very different to the annual report. This may also affect how your data compares to your peers and to regional/national averages, and it is important to keep this in mind when interpreting the data presented here. 

If you are a clinician submitting NPDA data, you can improve the data within the dashboard, and its use by your service, by submitting data prospectively throughout the year.

Contact

Please contact the NPDA team at npda@rcpch.ac.uk with any queries regarding the data displayed on this page. 

We are still developing this dashboard and welcome any suggestions on how we can improve the layout, content and function. Please email the team with any comments or suggestions.

Disclaimer

These tools and documents were specifically developed for use within the National Paediatric Diabetes Audit. These tools have been made publicly available and should you choose to download them for uses outside of the National Paediatric Diabetes Audit, you are free to do so, but are hereby agreeing to enter into a royalty-free, non-exclusive, licence agreement with Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP) under the following terms and conditions:

All information, software, products and related graphics contained in the audit tool or data collection form are provided for non-commercial purposes "as is" without warranty, including but not limited to the implied warranties of satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, title and non-infringement of third party intellectual property rights. In no event shall HQIP be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages for loss of profits, revenue, data or use of, the audit tool or form. HQIP make no representations about the suitability, reliability, timeliness, and accuracy of the information, software, products and related graphics contained in the audit tool or forms. HQIP reserves the right to make improvements, changes or updates to forms or tools at any time without notice.