National Diabetes Footcare Audit: Hospital Admissions and Care Metrics 2014-2016

England and Wales audit data on diabetic foot disease care structures, processes, and outcomes. The dataset covers patients first seen by a specialist foot team between July 2014 and April 2016, published by the Government Digital Service. It contains participation and data completeness metrics for trusts, service, and clinical commissioning groups.

Use Cases

• Benchmarking hospital and clinical commissioning group performance against NICE guidelines based on audit participation metrics.
• Analyzing care structures and processes for diabetic foot disease based on the described audit areas.
• Monitoring adverse outcomes for people with diabetes who develop foot disease based on reported outcome measures.

Strengths

• Covers a defined 21-month period from July 2014 to April 2016.
• Audit data is structured to measure performance against national clinical guidelines.
• Data is non-identifiable, covering trusts and CCGs identified by name and code.

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

Government Digital Service

Collection Method

Continuous national clinical audit within the National Clinical Audit and Patient Outcomes Programme.

Time Range

July 2014 to April 2016

Freshness

Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Geography

England and Wales