Health written question – answered at on 13 December 2004.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many diabetes datasets defining minimum standards have NHS Information Standards Board approval.
The diabetes summary core dataset was given national health service information standards board (ISB) approval in March 2003. This dataset was developed to support implementation of the national diabetes audit, rolled out in 2004.
A wider continuing care reference dataset will be submitted to the ISB for approval as a national standard in January 2005.
Specialist extension datasets to support paediatric care, eye care (and national retinal screening) and foot care have been developed and will be submitted to the ISB for national approval within the next year.
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