The National Association of Diabetes Centres is an organisation that supports the best quality care of people with diabetes in Australia.

1. NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
OF
DIABETES CENTRES
2016

2. STRUCTURE OF NADC

3. AIMS OF NADC

4. How is NADC Funded?
The Australian Diabetes Society (ADS) is responsible for the
operations of the NADC
As the NADC has no specific funding, it mainly relies on grants and
sponsorships and subscriptions from members, as well as direct
support from ADS
Member centres pay an annual membership

5. NADC Membership
There are currently over 110 NADC centres across
Australia
Current membership and a list of accredited centres can
be found on the NADC website at www.nadc.net.au
There are 4 types of diabetes centres

7. The Key NADC Activities 2016
1. Self sustaining funding
2. Improve administration functions
3. Accreditation
4. General Care Course
5. Meetings – Best Practice in Diabetes Centres (BPDC) & ASM
6. Australian National Diabetes Audit (ANDA)
7. Member resources and tools including BioGrid
8. Support of the National Diabetes Strategy
9. Marketing of NADC
10. Interactive map
11. Champion funding of diabetes services

8. Best Practice in
Diabetes Centres
(BPDC)
The Best Practice in Diabetes
Centres meetings have been an
integral educational/policy/service
provision forum for NADC
members.
Next meeting is arranged for
October 22nd & 23rd 2016

9. BPDC 2015
Overall how satisfied were you with BPDC 2015?

10. BPDC 2015 OUTCOMES
1. Promoting sharing and learning across organisations
2. Continuing to strengthen integration across services
3. Championing funding of services at a National level

11. Member Survey
Summary:
All of the 3 BPDC
outcomes were rated
as high or very high in
importance by over
90% of the
membership.

12. Member Survey
The priority of current and future projects were rated as:
1. Repository of resources
2. Implementation of the National Diabetes Strategy
3. Clinical care pathways
4. ANDA as a quality improvement and benchmarking resource
5. Video recording educational sessions
6. Interactive map of NADC organisations across Australia
7. Online General Care Course
8. Accreditation of NADC member centres
9. Best Practice of Diabetes Care (BPDC) meeting – it is to be noted that some of those
surveyed may have not attended a BPDC

13. Member Survey
The priority areas were:
1. Benchmarking opportunities
2. Coordination of projects
3. Utilisation of ANDA
4. More conferences / education
5. BPDC
6. Journal related to management of
diabetes centres

14. The NADC Accreditation Review
• Ensure that the NADC accreditation enabled organisations to provide robust
quality and safe care for people with, or at risk of, diabetes
• To ensure that member centres were provided with the support and means
by which to deliver quality and safe care to patients
• By lifting the standard of service delivered by centres across Australia, the
NADC was meeting key goals under the National Diabetes Strategy 2016-2016 ...
* Improved care
* Improved quality of life among people with diabetes
* A reduction in the prevalence of diabetes-related complications.

15. How HasThis Been Achieved?
• The NADC standards incorporate essential and relevant criteria from key
standards including:
- The Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in
Health Care’s National Safety and Quality Health Service
(NSQHS) Standards
- The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners
Standards for General Practices

16. Key Inclusions and Considerations
• Ensure that our standards were easy-to-use and easy-to-understand (with
the inclusion of an explanatory guide to assist applicants)
• Three key aspects underpinned our direction forV2 – the inclusion of
governance, educational and clinical criteria
• Key criteria were added including:
• Improved patient health outcomes
• Technology
• Integrated Care
• Patient self-management &
• Health literacy.

17. NADC member centres
It’s important to note:
• NADC Accreditation is not mandatory, however
• Successful accreditation is required in order to be recognised as an
“NADC Accredited Centre” in the following categories
* Tertiary,
* Care, or
* Affiliate member
Who Can Apply for NADC Accreditation?

18. Globally…
Diabetes accreditation and recognition standards are either:
• Program focussed – accrediting or recognising to a single
program, or
• Clinically focussed – accrediting or recognising particular clinical
practices and/or outcomes

19. In Australia …
Diabetes centres are generally accredited via overarching hospital
accreditation, however…
• Some services can miss out as not all hospital-based services are involved
in the accreditation process
• Diabetes centres which operate in the community or in a medical centre
cannot access this accreditation
NADC has filled the accreditation gap; providing all diabetes centres with the
opportunity to participate in quality and safety improvement.

20. Member Benefits of NADC Accreditation
Recognition
as a Best
Practice
centre
Knowledge-
sharing
Participation
in nation-
wide quality
improvementBusiness
expansion –
broaden
reputation
& patients
Enhance
status &
reputation
Service
improvement
– increased
resources &
funding

21. Centres of Excellence (COE)
The NADC Accreditation Standards for Centres of Excellence recognise
excellence in clinical, education, service advocacy and policy leadership on a
national scale in the provision of diabetes care
10 Centres applied for COE
Strict and rigorous criteria
Awards announced at BPDC 2015
Next round open 2017

22. Diabetes Management in the
General Care Setting
Recently updated
Aimed at registered and enrolled nurses, allied health staff, other staff from other
generalist hospital, community, nursing home and care facilities
ONLINE BY 2017
More information and applications forms www.nadc.net.au

23. BioGrid Database
The NADC data base sub-committee appointed BioGrid, an IT
company to implement a clinical database for use by NADC
Centres
13 Centres successfully received1year financial support
4 new grants available
More information and applications forms www.nadc.net.au

24. Diabetes Resources

25. Australian National
Diabetes Audit (ANDA)
In 2016 over 50 Centres participated
Presentation up next

26. NADC Centres of Excellence
The committee would like to congratulate the very deserving COE recipients:
• Canberra Hospital
• Monash Health
• Princess Margaret Hospital
• Royal Prince Alfred Hospital

27. National Diabetes Strategy
• The NADC will actively support strategies that
work toward implementing the NDS
• BPDC 2016 has a strong focus on NDS
• Opportunities for involvement by member centres
will be developed including a Delphi survey

28. Funding
• A review of how NADC is to sustain funding was
commenced in 2015 and progress toward a sustaining
member model was pursued which includes
unrestricted funding support of NADC projects by
industry partners
• Exploration of future funding partnerships will be
explored in line with the ADS Partnerships and
Sponsorships Policy

29. Newsletter,Website &
Member Communications
• Communication to member centres continues to be an important
part of the NADC
• Quarterly member newsletters have been sent via email using
MailChimp which allows us to track newsletter statistics

30. Diabetes Foot Care
In partnership with the ADS and other team members, the
NADC is supporting the Australian Diabetic Foot Network
and investigating:
• increasing awareness of the foot care issue
• commencing standards/accreditation for Diabetes High
Risk Foot Care Centres (DHRFC)
• supporting a geographic mapping process of Diabetes
High Risk Foot Care services across Australia

31. Communication
WEB: www.nadc.net.au
EMAIL: admin@nadc.net.au
TWITTER: @NADCaustralia

32. TeamWork