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Making clinical audit data transparent In his transparency and open data letter to Cabinet Ministers on 7 July 2011, the Prime Minister made a commitment to make clinical audit data available from the national audits within the National Clinical Audit and Patient Outcomes Programme. Each year data from the National Paediatric Diabetes Audit will be made available in CSV format. The data are also being made available on the data.gov website. What information is being made available? Audit participation by Paediatric unit and data completeness for the key fields. Measures about the process of care given to patients. Information about care outcomes and treatment. Paediatric units are identified by name and their national code. These data do not list individual patient information, nor do they contain any patient identifiable data. The National Paediatric Diabetes Audit is a high profile, collaborative, national clinical audit for paediatric diabetes. The National Paediatric Diabetes Audit was run by the NHS Information Centre up to and including the 2009-10 audit. It is now managed by The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH). The audit aims to improve the quality of care in young people with diabetes. It meets the requirements as set out in the NICE guidelines. The National Paediatric Diabetes Audit 2009/10 covers the time period from 1 January 2009 up to 31 March 2010 and specialist paediatric units from England are included.