National Diabetes Foot Care Audit: Diabetic Foot Disease in England and Wales, 2015-2018

Aggregated National Diabetes Foot Care Audit data for 2015-18 at NHS trust, specialist foot care service, sustainability and transformation partnership (STP), and clinical commissioning group (CCG) levels. The audit, published by NHS Digital, enables services to measure performance against NICE guidelines and monitor adverse outcomes for people with diabetic foot disease. It covers patients first seen with a diabetic foot ulcer by a specialist service between 1 April 2015 and 31 March 2018.

Use Cases

• Benchmarking foot care service performance against NICE clinical guidelines based on audit measures.
• Monitoring adverse outcomes for diabetic foot disease patients across different NHS organizational levels.
• Analyzing the implementation of recommended care structures and treatment processes for diabetic foot disease.

Strengths

• Data covers a 3-year period from 2015 to 2018, providing a multi-year view of care.
• Aggregated data is available at multiple organizational levels (NHS trust, CCG, STP, specialist service).
• Data is made available in CSV format for structured analysis.

Limitations

• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data should not be looked at in isolation when assessing standards of care, as noted in the description.

Provenance

Source

NHS Digital

Collection Method

Continuous clinical audit of diabetic foot disease in England and Wales.

Time Range

2015-04-01 to 2018-03-31

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:31:05.018763; freshness should be verified.

Geography

England and Wales