NHS Diabetes is a service improvement team working with managers, commissioners and providers of diabetes services to improve the quality of care for people with diabetes.

We are tackling unacceptable variation by providing information at a local level that highlights outlying performance and supports quality improvement.

This website is an interactive resource set up to enable people to source support, guidance, resources, diabetes information and data from their desk. We have a team of experts in commissioning, networks and safety, information and data on hand to support you with commissioning and service improvement. Please contact our team with your questions through the 'Ask a question?' button found on each page.

NHS Diabetes plays a vital role in improving the services and quality of care received by people with diabetes and have one simple but crucial aim; to embed safe, evidence-based examples of ‘what works’ leading to better outcomes for patients.

We are leading the way for long-term conditions. We enable delivery of the National Health Service (NHS) Outcomes Framework and National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) Clinical Standards for diabetes through:

Effectiveness

Working nationally to engineer large scale improvements through sharing evidence, information and health economics, and identifying ways to make smart use of resources.  

Patient experience

Engaging patients and carers to obtain their involvement and views, acting to reduce variations in health care and developing networks to support integration across care pathways.

Safety

Responding to gaps in knowledge with education tools, providing benchmarking information nationally, and engaging healthcare professionals, managers and commissioners to change behaviours to protect patients from avoidable harm.