NATIONAL ASSOCIATIONOF

DIABETES CENTRES 2014

What is the NADC?

The NADC was established in 1994 to explore

mechanisms for improving the standard of care

available to people with diabetes through Specialist

Diabetes Centres and Services.

Membership

In 2013, there were 65 NADC centres across Australia

Current membership and a list of accredited centres can be found on the NADC website at www.nadc.net.au

What are the aims of NADC?

Promote the flow of information and collaboration between specialist diabetes services;

Link non-specialist service providers; Collect and pool diabetes information data to promulgate

improved standards, methods and models of diabetes care; Assist NADC member centres maintain standards as

centres of excellence.

How is NADC funded?

The ADS and ADEA hold joint responsibility for the operations of the NADC.

As the NADC has no specific funding they mainly rely on grants and sponsorships, and subscriptions from members, as well as direct support from ADS and ADEA.

The Key NADC Activities: 

1. Australian National Diabetes Audit (ANDA) formerly ANDIAB

The Australian National Diabetes Audit (ANDA) formerly ANDIAB has been a key NADC project that relies on member centres collecting clinical data on a biennial basis

AQSMA (Australian Quality Self Management Audit) formerly ANDIAB2, collects data specifically related to diabetes education and self-care on a biennial basis.

Site reports are provided to enable participating centres to benchmark their own data against that of others and with the NHMRC guidelines

These are important quality assurance activities which promote continuous improvement in the standard of service provided by Diabetes Centres.

In 2013, 30 Centres participated

 

 2. Best Practice in Diabetes Centres (BPDC)

The Best Practice in Diabetes Centres Meetings has been an integral educational/policy/service

provision forum for NADC members

There have been 4 meetings in Sydney in 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2011

The program has been organised by the NADC and sponsored by Lilly

Each NADC member centre is invited to send 1 medical and 1 nursing representative to the meeting.

These meetings are an interactive forum intended to canvass/discuss issues important to Diabetes

Centres/Services  

Next meeting planned with ASZ support in Nov 2014

The Key NADC Activities: 

3 . Diabetes Management in the General Care Setting:

A National Training Program for Nurses and Allied Health Professionals

This Training Program is currently under review and being reaccredited in 2013 with funding kindly

provided by Boehringer Ingelheim / Lilly Alliance

The training provides a standardised basic diabetes training program containing introductory

information about diabetes and its management.

The program is aimed at registered and enrolled nurses, allied health staff, and other staff from other

generalist hospital, community, nursing home, and other care facilities including drug and alcohol and

respite care services.  

Current Projects

Diabetes Database

The NADC data base sub-committee have appointed BioGrid an IT company to

implement a clinical database for use by NADC Centres

This can serve as a medical record with many other functions and benefits

The program will also be an extremely valuable source of data for practice evaluation

and auditing across all NADC centres

 

Accreditation

The NADC has commenced an accreditation system for NADC member centres

The aim is to establish NADC Tertiary Diabetes & Care Centres as proven Centres

of Excellence in diabetes care

This is an important part of the process of demonstrating to the Commonwealth and

State Health authorities that NADC Diabetes Centres offer high standard

multidisciplinary care that cannot be replicated in primary care.

 

Communication

Development of a stand alone website had provided NADC with a valuable

communication tool to improve member information and access that contains all

NADC resources, upcoming events, newsletters and all NADC forms are

available

Commencement of a Twitter account

Regular member emails

www.nadc.net.au

For further information

www.nadc.net.au

admin@nadc.net.au