National Pregnancy in Diabetes Audit

Access for registered users

This dashboard presents an interactive visual version of the service level report for maternity services.

We encourage services to review their entered data accordingly.

Consent is no longer required for this audit unless you are a service based in the Isle of Man.

Services in the Isle of Man must still complete a consent form before a patient's data can legally be recorded.

However, all services must choose ‘yes’ for consent in order to enter a record – regardless of location.

The National Pregnancy in Diabetes (NPID) Audit measures the quality of pre-gestational diabetes care against NICE guideline based criteria and the outcomes of pre-gestational diabetic pregnancy. 

The audit will answer the following three key questions:

• were women with diabetes adequately prepared for pregnancy? 
• were appropriate steps taken during pregnancy to minimise adverse outcomes to the mother? 
• did any adverse outcomes occur? 

The National Pregnancy in Diabetes Audit is a continuous collection so please keep collecting and entering your data into the Clinical Audit Platform (CAP).

The submission deadline for 2023 pregnancies is Friday 16 February. Please submit all 2023 mother and baby records by this date.

The seventh annual report was published in October 2023 and includes all pregnancies from January 2022 to December 2022 that were input into CAP before 17 February 2023. 

For the 2023 report, the NPID audit has used data from the Neonatal Research Database (NNRD), managed by the Neonatal Data Analysis Unit (NDAU) at Imperial College London. This has enabled us to look at babies in Neonatal Intensive Care Units, to see if their outcomes and length of stay differed from the general population. 

Current studies using the NNRD

For more information on current studies using the NNRD, visit the Imperial College London website.

1. Identify an audit lead for your organisation.

2. Register all staff who will submit NPID data by completing the NPID User Registration Form.

3. Record all information for each pregnancy on the NPID data collection form. If the pregnancy resulted in more than one baby, for example twins, please use the additional baby sheet to record the additional outcomes.

4. Registered staff members submit data into the Clinical Audit Platform.

NPID guidance documents

For more details on how to participate, please refer to the NPID guidance documents.

As one of the audits within the National Clinical Audit and Patient Outcomes Programme (NCAPOP), participation in the National Pregnancy in Diabetes Audit is a requirement in the NHS standard contract for acute hospitals with obstetric services.

If you are unsure if you are eligible, please contact the team at [email protected]

For further information about the audit, please email: [email protected] or call 0300 303 5678. Lines are open Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm.

For general enquiries, please email: [email protected].