Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people were diagnosed with diabetes in East Lancashire in each of the last five years.

The information requested is not available. Information on the number of patients in the National Diabetes Audit (NDA) registered in primary care with a general practitioner (GP) practice in the East Lancashire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) that were newly diagnosed with diabetes in the 2009-10, 2010-11, 2011-12 and 2012-13 audits is shown in the following tables.

Table 1: Number of people newly diagnosed with diabetes in each audit year for East Lancashire CCG

Table 2: The coverage of the NDA based on the number of participating practices in the East Lancashire CCG in each of the audit years

Notes:

1. Participation in the NDA, which audits diabetes registrations in primary and secondary care, is not mandatory. The NDA does not have 100% coverage or participation so the information in Table 1 will be incomplete. Table 2 shows the proportion of GP practices in East Lancashire CCG participating in the audit in each audit year.

2. The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health are the authoritative source for all Paediatric diabetes audit data.

3. The NDA currently only holds data for 2009-10, 2010-11, 2011-12 and 2012-13. Each audit covers a 15 month period, for example the 2012-13 audit was for the period 1 January 2012 to 31 March 2013.

4. Due to the 15 month audit period from January to March, a patient could be classed as newly diagnosed in two audit periods, for example if the patient were diagnosed in 2012 and appeared in the 2011-12 and the 2012-13 audit they could be counted twice, once in each year.

5. The data at CCG level is collated by mapping data from GP practices for each audit year to their current CCG. Prior to the 2011-12 audit, the NDA reported at PCT level. Where PCT and CCG boundaries differ, the figures here will differ to published figures from the 2009-10 and 2010-11 audits.

6. NDA 2012-13 comprised data from 1.9 million persons with diabetes in England. Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) states there are approximately 2.7 million persons aged 17 or over with diabetes in England alone.

7. NDA 2012-13 comprised data from 5,666 practices in England, there are around 8,000 practices in England.

8. Coverage of the NDA based on practices in the NHS East Lancashire CCG is shown in Table 2 above.

Source: The Health and Social Care Information Centre – National Diabetes Audit