Any questions (especially from Centres that have not previously participated in ANDA) should be directed to Prof Sophia Zoungas at email anda@nadc.net.au.
The conduct of ANDA is overseen by Professor Sophia Zoungas (at Monash University/Monash Health) in consultation with the ANDA Scientific Advisory Committee
The NADC coordinates the Australian National Diabetes Audit (ANDA) survey every year.
It is a free quality improvement activity for all NADC members and provides the participating services with a comprehensive individualised report on many aspects of their specific service and benchmarks against like-sized organisations.
There are 2 ANDA audits that alternate each year:
The Australian National Diabetes Audit is fully funded by the Commonwealth Department of Health
The ANDA collections are an important quality activity that promotes continuous improvement in the standard of services provided by diabetes centres. It is anticipated that the data collected will provide key performance indicators for diabetes services to benchmark their performance against best practice.
Primary Care organisations are encouraged to be involved.
To register an Expression of Interest to be a part of ANDA, please email: anda@nadc.net.au
The Australian National Diabetes Audit (ANDA) is a national clinical quality registry.
It is a centralised quality assurance activity aiming to improve the quality of care provided to people with diabetes.
ANDA is coordinated by Monash University in conjunction with the National Association of Diabetes Centres and participating primary, secondary and tertiary care diabetes centres across Australia.
ANDA collects data about people with diabetes treatments, complications, self-care practices and quality of life outcomes. This information is then reported back to the diabetes centres and relevant stakeholders to help determine what factors contribute to and promote better patient care and outcomes. The reports provide a unique opportunity for diabetes centres to benchmark their performance against their peers across Australia and the different segments of the health system. Ultimately it is hoped to be able to benchmark the performance of Australian diabetes centres with international centres.
The Australian National Diabetes Audit is fully funded by the Commonwealth Department of Health; their generous contribution and enthusiastic support for ANDA is a testament to the importance of this nationwide quality assurance activity.
ANDA aims to:
ANDA aims to have a broad diabetes focus and it is anticipated that the activity will expand to collect a dataset of many different aspects of diabetes care and outcomes.
Currently, ANDA has two data collection modules: Clinical indicators and Patient-reported education, self-care and quality of life indicators
Data is collected for people with diabetes attending diabetes centres in participating Australian health services.
Clinical indicator data collection assesses a standardised set of predefined clinical parameters including demographic variables, biological variables and clinical outcomes known to impact people with diabetes.
This data collection assesses a standardised set of predefined patient self-management parameters including lifestyle factors, education and quality of life outcomes as well as health professional utilisation.
As new modules are approved for data collection, diabetes centres will be engaged and invited to participate.
For more information about the specific type of patient information collected in ANDA, please visit our What information is collected page.
Australia’s health system is world-class, supported by universal and affordable access to high quality medical, pharmaceutical and hospital services, while helping people to stay healthy through health promotion and disease prevention activities.
The Australian Department of Health has been established to provide a continued commitment of improving health outcomes for all Australians. Their purpose is to support the government and stakeholders to lead and shape Australia’s health and aged care system and sporting outcomes through evidence-based policy, well-targeted programs and best practice regulation.
The NADC is a national collective of organisations that are involved either directly or indirectly in diabetes services and care. The NADC was established to explore mechanisms and implement strategies for improving the standard of care for people with, or at risk of diabetes. NADC member organisations take a leadership role in developing the appropriate networks in their areas in order to achieve this outcome.
The ADS is the peak national medical and scientific body in Australia for diabetes. The ADS is a member-based organisation consisting of health professionals (endocrinologists, diabetes educators, primary care physicians and allied health professionals) as well as clinical and preclinical researchers. The ADS mission is to prevent diabetes and its complications; provide excellence in education for health professionals; promote collaboration, research and education; work with other organisations committed to improved diabetes treatment and care and advocate for health policies around diabetes and its prevention.
For more information on the ANDA audits including the published reports, please click on the following links: CLICK HERE
ARTICLES | LINK |
Journal of Diabetes and Its Complications (Nanayakkara et al. Diabetes Complication) | Click Here |
Age-related differences in glycaemic control, cardiovascular disease risk factors and treatment in patients with type 2 diabetes: a cross-sectional study from the Australian National Diabetes Audit (Nanayakkara et al. BMJ Open) | Click Here |
Burden of cardiovascular risk factors and disease among patients with type 1 diabetes: results of the Australian National Diabetes Audit (ANDA) (Pease et al. Cardiovascular Diabetology) | Click Here |
Depression and diabetes distress in adults with type 2 diabetes: results from the Australian National Diabetes Audit (ANDA) 2016 (Nanayakkara et al. Scientific Reports) | Click Here |
Younger people with Type 2 diabetes have poorer self-care practices compared with older people: results from the Australian National Diabetes Audit (Nanayakkara et al. Diabetic Medicine) | Click Here |
The association of smoking status with glycemic control, metabolic profile and diabetic complications– Results of the Australian National Diabetes Audit (ANDA) (Szwarcbard et al J Diabetes Complications) | Click Here |
Risk-adjustment of diabetes health outcomes improves the accuracy of performance benchmarking (Danek et al Scientific Reports) | Click Here |
The National Association of Diabetes Centres (NADC) is a national collective of organisations that are involved either directly or indirectly in diabetes services and care.