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NICE quality standards: driving improved care?
Author(s) -
Chaplin Steve
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
practical diabetes
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.205
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 2047-2900
pISSN - 2047-2897
DOI - 10.1002/pdi.2058
Subject(s) - medicine , nice , quality (philosophy) , standard of care , intensive care medicine , philosophy , epistemology , computer science , programming language
In 2015, NICE published its updated guideline on the diagnosis and management of type 1 and type 2 diabetes in children and young people (CYP).1 But it’s not enough to tell clinicians and their patients what they should be doing. The National Diabetes Audit has shown that the NHS has not been fully delivering the services it should nor achieving its targets for CYP. The audit of paediatric services for 2014 to 2015, a period covered by the 2004 NICE guideline, showed that only 25% of CYP received all seven recommended care processes; 24% achieved the target HbA1c of <58mmol/mol; the prevalence of microalbuminuria or retino pathy was 12–13% among the over-12s; and 27% had hypertension.2