BSPED2013 Speaker Abstracts Symposia 3 Present and future: novelty and goals (3 abstracts)
Nottingham, UK.
The paediatric diabetes best practice tariff (BPT) was introduced in 2012, with the aim of standardising and improving paediatric diabetes services across England. In the first year, only about 50% of units were claiming the full tariff but this had substantially improved for 20132014. It is probably too early to see if there has been a positive impact on outcomes but data from the East Midlands will be presented to look at this in more detail. From 2014, the BPT will also include payment for in-patient stays and it is hoped that with more evidence we may be able to apply the tariff put to age 25.