Endocrine Abstracts

For 19 years the National Paediatric Diabetes Audit (NPDA) has worked with hospitals across England and Wales to measure the health outcomes and experiences of children and young people living with diabetes. The data collected and the published reports have become a staple resource for paediatric diabetes units (PDUs) and networks to get an overview of their population. Alongside the NPDA annual reports, PDUs have access to unit level reports, an online extraction tool and the raw data – the data can be used to drive service improvements and share areas of challenge and of best practice, but the broad spectrum and sheer volume of data can be overwhelming, difficult to navigate and has limited extraction options. In 2022 the NHSE CORE20PLUS5 for Children and Young People was published and diabetes was highlighted as one of the 5 key clinical areas of health inequality specifically in relation to deprivation and ethnicity, creating increased pressure on PDUs to tackle the specific inequalities in their locality. The current limitations on data extraction options available to PDUs in relation to inequalities presented an opportunity to develop a comprehensive and user-friendly tool to support diabetes healthcare professional colleagues to fully understand their population in terms of deprivation and ethnicity. Using the raw data available through the NPDA, an interactive, user-friendly, and comprehensive excel platform was developed focussing on the 3 key audit findings of HbA1c, Key Health Check Completion (T1 and T2) and Technology-use and then broke them down by ICS level and PDU level, and by ethnicity and deprivation. The platform was designed to enable ease of use and smooth extraction for presentations and business cases, seamlessly creating self-explanatory graphs and charts whilst easily comparing units, networks and ICBs. Having access to, and understanding the data related to your paediatric diabetes population is key to identifying and targeting quality improvement work to close the inequalities gap. This interactive data tool is providing diabetes healthcare professionals, healthcare providers and commissioners the most relevant data in a user-friendly and convenient format to support local and ICB level prioritisation of work.