Using Data to Improve Diabetes Care

Regular screening and monitoring is key to ensuring the prompt detection of diabetes complications and allows for early and aggressive intervention. This is a key part of priority number 1 from the Scottish Diabetes Group.

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9 Processes of Diabetes Care

For adults living with diabetes, there are nine processes of care that should be checked on an annual basis. – these are HbA1c, BP, weight, smoking status, screening, renal function, albuminuria, cholesterol, retinal and foot screening.

Albuminuria testing and foot screening remain the two most challenging areas, and we continue to prioritise highlighting this at a regional level, supporting primary care systems and pathways to maximise these important preventable complications.

Early work has shown that coding for foot screening may mean that documented screening rates are not always in line with actual screening. Ideally our secondary care colleagues would encourage direct data input into sci-diabetes, but we are also working with Primary Care Data Users group to ensure chronic disease templates in the new vision are collecting aligned data.

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SCI- Diabetes

The Scottish Care Information – Diabetes (SCI-Diabetes) system in Scotland’s national system for looking after all people with diabetes in Scotland. It is cornerstone for diabetes care, and can be used in primary care to identify and target those who have missed out on the 9 key processes of care and in Lothian, the Diabetes Managed Clinical Network is committed to making access available widely via this dedicated page.

Requesting Access to SCI Diabetes

If you would like to improve and utilise the SCI-Diabetes dashboard within your practice, please follow the instructions below.

Link to eHealth System Access Form: Service Catalogue – Service Portal (service-now.com)

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SCI Diabetes Video User Guides

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