GIRFT CYA Diabetes ICB questionnaire

Overview

NHS England's Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) Team are rolling out a new workstream 'Children and Young People Diabetes' 

The worksteam will bring together key metrics on diabetes care in 0-25 year olds , providing benchmarked and actionable insights. Whilst most of the data needed is already available, some important data is not. This questionnaire has been developed to plug those gaps, and quantify  delivery at System level. A further questionnaire has been sent to each of the Trusts who provide a Paediatric Diabetes Service and/or care to young adults with diabetes in your ICB to help quantify delivery at provider level. 

NHS England Getting It Right First Time Programme (GIRFT) Information Governance Notice

Why are we collecting the data?

The results from the questionnaire will be used to support NHS England duty under the Health and Care Act 2022 to protect and promote the interests of people who use health care services by promoting provision of health care services which are, inter alia, economic, efficient and effective.

GIRFT is a national programme overseen by NHS England that aims to deliver quality improvement in patient outcomes through peer-to-peer discussion with Clinicians and managers in trusts and wider local partners.  It combines wide-ranging data analysis with the input and professional knowledge of Clinicians to examine how things are currently being done and how they could be improved.

Results from the questionnaire will be used for three purposes only:

To support GIRFT Gateway Review and NHSE implementation meetings in hospitals and ICB's
To help shape key themes and recommendations in the GIRFT national specialty report.
The help inform themes for NHSE CYP Diabetes Quality Improvement Collaboratives 

The questionnaire will not collect patient identifiable information.  The questions cover both quantitative and qualitative themes. Most responses are either yes/no or numerical, both of which GIRFT may use for benchmarking analysis.

The questionnaire may request the name and contact details of the person who submitted responses to allow GIRFT to follow-up for clarification of answers, and which will not be shared.

Who will access the data and how will it be further shared?

The results from the questionnaire will be stored within the secure IT environment managed by NHS England. Data will be accessed by a small number of GIRFT staff that have NHS England permission to use the data for NHS England purposes.

The secure NHS England IT data environment is regularly backed up and data will be stored until no longer required for the purpose of the implementation of the GIRFT programme.  NHS England may also share the data internally with NHS England regional and national teams to support our wider efficiency and productivity programmes and delivery of all statutory responsibilities of NHS England.

Data Quality and Validation

Before you submit your questionnaire, it is worth noting that NHS England will not validate any answers. Please ensure that you check the quality of your data (in terms of both accuracy and completeness) before submission.