Diabetes Record Information Standard
Defines the information needed to support a person's diabetes management and care. The sub-set, the Diabetes Self-Management Information Standard, is included.
About this standard
- Publisher
- NHS England
- Reference code
- DAPB4085 Amd 59/2022
- Publication date
- 06/04/2023
- Status
- Active
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- Standard type
- Information standards
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Collections. A Collection is a systematic gathering of a specified selection of data or information for a particular stated purpose from existing records held within health and care systems and electronic devices.
Extractions. An extraction is a type of collection that is pulled from an operational system by the data controller and transmitted to the receiver without additional processing or transcription by the sender.
Information standards. Information standards are agreed ways of doing something, written down as a set of precise criteria so they can be used as rules, guidelines, or definitions.
Technical Standards and specifications. Technical standards and specifications specify how to make information available technically including how the data is structured and transported.
- Contact point
- Please include “Diabetes Record Information Standard” in the subject.
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- Documentation
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- Applies to
- All service providers involved in the care/support of people with diabetes
- Ambulance services
- Care homes (nursing and residential)
- Community-based services
- General Practice
- Hospices
- Acute care services
- Mental health services
- Urgent and emergency care
- Impacts on
- Implementation of this information standard impacts all health IT systems suppliers providing systems to health and care professionals involved in the direct care of people with diabetes.
- Associated medias
- Conformance date
- 31/03/2025
- Effective from
- 01/03/2023
Topics and care settings
- Topic
- Care records
- Key care information
- Care setting
- Community health
- Dentistry
- Hospital
- Maternity
- Mental health
- Social care
- Urgent and Emergency Care
Dependencies and related standards
- Dependencies
- Related standards
- National Diabetes Audit DCB2235
- National Diabetes Audit – Core Collection (NDACore) DCB2235-01
- National Pregnancy in Diabetes Audit (NPID) DCB2235-02
- National Diabetes Footcare Audit (NDFA) DCB2235-03
- National Diabetes Inpatient Audit (NaDIA) DCB2235-04
- National Diabetes Inpatient Audit: Harms collection (NaDIA-Harms) DCB2235-05
- National Diabetes Audit
Review Information
- Scope
- Health Services, NHS Services, Social Care
- Sponsor
Ben McGough, Digital Lead NHS Diabetes, NHS England
- Senior Responsible Officer
Professor Partha Kar, National Specialty Advisor, Diabetes and co-lead of Diabetes Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT), NHS England
- Business Lead
- Sarah Jackson, Project Manager, PRSB
- Contributor
- Professional Record Standards Body (PRSB)
- Approval date
- 28/02/2023
- Post Implementation review Date
- 31/03/2025
Legal basis and endorsements
- Legal authority
Section 250 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012
This information standard is published under section 250 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012
More information
This is a new standard to define the information needed to support a person's diabetes management, including self-management, across care settings.
- The Diabetes Record Information Standard defines the information needed to support a person’s diabetes management. It includes information that could be recorded by health and care professionals or the person themselves that is relevant to the diabetes care of the person and should be shared between different care providers.
- The Diabetes Self-Management Information Standard defines the information that could be recorded by the person themselves (or their carer) at home (either using digital apps or medical technology, e.g. continuous glucose monitors or insulin pumps) and shared with health and care professionals. (This is a subset of the Diabetes Record Information Standard for a specific use case.)
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