National Diabetes Audit - Diabetes Prevention Programme, 2017-18 Diagnoses and Demographic

January 2017 to March 2018 data from the NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme, a joint initiative by NHS England, Public Health England, and Diabetes UK. This report contains aggregated, non-identifiable patient data at England, Clinical Commissioning Group, and GP practice levels, published by the Government Digital Service under a CC-BY-4.0 license. The audit report itself was published on 11 July 2019.

Use Cases

• Analyzing regional variation in Diabetes Prevention Programme take-up based on CCG and GP practice-level data.
• Studying demographic patterns among patients with non-diabetic hyperglycaemia based on patient demographics data.
• Assessing the scale of patient identification and programme offers based on registrations and prevalence data.

Strengths

• Data is aggregated at three administrative levels: England, Clinical Commissioning Group, and GP practice.
• Covers a defined 15-month period from January 2017 to March 2018.
• Explicitly states it contains no patient identifiable data, ensuring privacy compliance.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Government Digital Service

Collection Method

Data collected alongside the National Diabetes Audit (NDA).

Time Range

January 2017 to March 2018

Freshness

Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Geography

England only