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National Diabetes Quality Programme

We work with paediatric diabetes units in England and Wales to improve care, outcomes and the quality of life for children and young people with diabetes, and their families.

What we do

To help drive outcomes improvements and encourage service change in paediatric diabetes care in England and Wales, the National Diabetes Quality Programme was established in collaboration with the National Children and Young People’s Diabetes Network in April 2018.

We aim to improve multidisciplinary care for children and young people with diabetes in the NHS, reducing unwarranted variations and involving families in service improvement in a developmental way.

Email: diabetes.quality@rcpch.ac.uk
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Quality improvement

Our QI Collaborative supports multidisciplinary teams to share their processes and develop new models of care. Our pilot began with 10 units in October 2017, and we're now working with teams across the country.
About the QI Collaborative

Self assessment

Participating teams self assess a set of clinical measures, providing evidence as support, and our external verification provides a consistent check. We've produced our first report, with some good baseline data.
About the self assessment

Peer review

We train and support health professionals to visit participating units. They speak with the service team, colleagues, patients and families to determine compliance against the standards, explore any barriers and identify good practice.
About peer review

Resources

Here you will be able to find useful materials for taking part in the programme.

Ideas for innovation
Programme resources

Who we are

About the RCPCH team
Programme board
Clinical advisory group
Network managers
Participating hospitals

News from the College about diabetes and QI

All news