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Clinical audits and registries

NHS England runs clinical audits and registries for the health and care system in England. We help partners like the Department of Health and the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership compare the performance of health and care services against standards and national trends so that they can improve patient outcomes.

Clinical audits and registries are developed and delivered by the Clinical Audits and Registries Management Service (CARMS), working collaboratively with clinical specialists, patient representatives and universities. We are commissioned by various organisations, including government, charities and academia.

Clinical audit is a way to find out if healthcare is being provided in line with standards and lets care providers, commissioners and patients know where their service is doing well, and where there could be improvements. The aim is to allow quality improvement to take place where it will be most helpful and will improve outcomes for patients. Registries collect data about the health status of patients and the health care they receive over varying periods of time.

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Go to the Clinical Audit Platform page to find out how to submit data to our audits and registries.

Alphabetic list of clinical audits and registries

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B

Breast and Cosmetic Implant Registry

Details of breast implant procedures completed in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland by both the NHS and private providers.


C

Core National Diabetes Audit

The Core National Diabetes Audit (NDA) is one of the largest annual clinical audits in the world, integrating data from both primary and secondary care sources, making it the most comprehensive audit of its kind.


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Female Genital Mutilation Datasets

The Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) Enhanced Dataset supports the Department of Health's FGM Prevention Programme by presenting a national picture of the prevalence of FGM in England.


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National Audit of Cardiac Rehabilitation

The National Audit of Cardiac Rehabilitation (NACR) collects comprehensive audit data to support the monitoring and improvement of cardiovascular prevention and rehabilitation services in terms of access, equity in provision, quality and clinical outcomes.


National Bowel Cancer Audit

From January 2024, the NBOCA is managed entirely by the National Cancer Audit Collaborating Centre (NATCAN).


National Diabetes Audit and Diabetes Prevention Programme (NDA-DPP) pilot study

This pilot looked at how GP practices record information on non-diabetic hyperglycaemia, (pre-diabetes), to identify the best way to add this data to the National Diabetes Audit dataset.


National Diabetes Audit – Integrated Specialist Survey (NDA ISS)

NHS England have been tasked with a deliverable to create an integrated specialist survey across the programme which encompasses all modules/workstreams.


National Diabetes Audit Programme

The National Diabetes Audit (NDA) Programme was originally developed to help improve services and monitor the impact of the diabetes national service framework (NSF).


National Diabetes Foot Care Audit

The National Diabetes Footcare Audit (NDFA) enables all diabetes footcare services to measure their performance against NICE clinical guidelines and peer units, and to monitor adverse outcomes for people with diabetes who develop diabetic foot disease.


National Diabetes Inpatient Audit

The National Diabetes Inpatient Audit (NaDIA) was an audit of diabetes inpatient care in England and Wales. The NaDIA audit has been replaced by the National Diabetes Inpatient Safety Audit (NDISA).


National Diabetes In-patient Audit-Harms

The objective of the NaDIA-Harms audit was to reduce the rates of serious inpatient harms. The NaDIA-Harms audit has been replaced by the National Diabetes Inpatient Safety Audit (NDISA).


National Diabetes Inpatient Safety Audit

The National Diabetes Inpatient Safety Audit (NDISA) is a subset of the National Diabetes Audit (NDA) and the successor to the NaDIA Bedside and Harms collection. It captures 4 harms that can occur to inpatients with diabetes and seeks to measure the standards of inpatient diabetic care in England and Wales provided by NHS acute and community healthcare organisations, as assessed against the Getting it Right First Time (GIRFT) standards.


National Diabetes Transition Audit

The National Diabetes Transition Audit links the National Diabetes Audit and National Paediatric Diabetes Audit datasets so that the care of young people with diabetes can be tracked during the transition from paediatric diabetes services to adult diabetes services.


National Gestational Diabetes Mellitus Audit

The National National Gestational Diabetes Mellitus Audit has been funded for 3 years as part of the National Diabetes Audit (NDA) Programme. This audit has been designed to improve understanding of numbers of women diagnosed with gestational diabetes mellitus, outcomes of those diagnosed, and postnatal support provided. 


National Obesity Audit

The National Obesity Audit (NOA) brings together data to drive improvement in quality of care available to those living with overweight and obesity in England.


National Oesophago-Gastric Cancer Audit

From January 2024, the NOGCA is managed entirely by the National Cancer Audit Collaborating Centre (NATCAN)


National Pregnancy in Diabetes Audit

Aims to support clinical teams to deliver better care and outcomes for women with diabetes who become pregnant.


National Pulmonary Hypertension Audit

The National Audit of Pulmonary Hypertension measures the quality of care, activity levels, access rates and patient outcomes of services in centres designated by the National Commissioning Group.


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Out of Area Placements (OAPs)

This audit monitors OAPs in mental health services for adults in acute in patient care to support the government's ambition to stop them by 2020-21.


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Patient Experience of Diabetes Services

Part of the National Diabetes Audit, which measures patient experiences in primary care and specialist services.