National Diabetes Inpatient Audit - Harms, 2018

NaDIA-Harms is a mandatory year-round collection of four harms that can occur to diabetic inpatients in Acute hospitals in England. The objective of NaDIA Harms is to help reduce the rates of serious inpatient harms by collecting and providing case mix adjusted benchmarked feedback to hospital trusts to inform quality improvement work. __Making clinical audit data transparent__ In his transparency and open data letter to Cabinet Ministers on 7 July 2011, the Prime Minister made a commitment to make clinical audit data available from the national audits within the National Clinical Audit and Patient Outcomes Programme. __What information is being made available?__ National Diabetes Inpatient Audit – Harms data for 2018 is available at national level for: * Audit participation * The number of harms These data do not list individual patient information nor do they contain any patient identifiable data. __Using and interpreting the data__ Data from the National Diabetes Inpatient Audit – Harms should not be looked at in isolation when assessing standards of care. __Accessing the data__ The data are being made available on the data.gov website. Each year a data file from the National Diabetes Inpatient Audit - Harms will be made available in CSV format. __What period does the data cover?__ The report covers impatient harms between May and October 2018. The audit report was published on 9 May 2019.