The National Association of Diabetes Centres (NADC) was established in 1994 to improve diabetes care standards through specialist centres. It aims to promote collaboration between centres, link providers, collect data to improve care, and help centres maintain excellence. There are currently 98 NADC member centres in Australia, including Tertiary Diabetes Centres, Diabetes Care Centres, and Affiliate Centres. Key NADC activities include the Australian National Diabetes Audit, Best Practice in Diabetes Centres meetings, and a diabetes management training program.

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National Association
of
Diabetes Centres

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What is the NADC?
The NADC was established in 1994 to
explore mechanisms for improving the
standard of care available to people with
with diabetes through Specialist Diabetes
Diabetes Centres and Services.

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What are the aims of NADC?
* Promote the flow of information and collaboration
between specialist diabetes services;
* Link non-specialist service providers;
*Collect and pool diabetes information data to
promulgate improved standards, methods and
models of diabetes care;
* Assist NADC member centres maintain standards
standards as centres of excellence.

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NADC Membership
There are currently 98 NADC centres across Australia
Current membership and a list of accredited centres can be found
found on the NADC website at www.nadc.net.au
3 types of diabetes centres:
Tertiary Diabetes Centre
Diabetes Care Centre
Affiliate Centre

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Types of Membership Centres
1. Tertiary Diabetes Centres
A specialist Diabetologist with expertise in diabetes care who is responsible
responsible for the clinical management functions of the Diabetes Centre
Centre
Diabetologist must attend the Diabetes Centre for a minimum of 1 session
session a week and also be actively involved in team meetings and/or
and/or quality assurance activities relating to the Service.
A full‐time or equivalent Registered Nurse Credentialled Diabetes Educator
Educator who is a member of the ADEA.
An Accredited Practising Dietitian working a minimum of two sessions a
a week activities relating to the Service.

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Types of Membership Centres
2. NADC Diabetes Care Centres
The organisation must have a full‐time or equivalent Registered
Nurse Credentialled Diabetes Educator who is a member of the
the ADEA as well as
An Accredited Practising Dietitian working a minimum of two
sessions a week activities relating to the Service.
They need to demonstrate that they monitor their outcomes
through participation in ANDA

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Types of Membership Centres
3. NADC Affiliate Diabetes Centres
The centre should demonstrate they have a Medical Practitioner
Practitioner involved in diabetes care as well as a
Registered Nurse (who has completed General Care Course) or
or Credentialled Diabetes Educator
Regular interdisciplinary communication and team meetings should
should also be evident.

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How is NADC Funded?
The Australian Diabetes Society are responsible for
for the operations of the NADC.
As the NADC has no specific funding they mainly rely
rely on grants and sponsorships, and subscriptions
from members, as well as direct support from ADS

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The Key NADC Activities:
1. Australian National Diabetes Audit (ANDA) formerly ANDIAB
The Australian National Diabetes Audit (ANDA) formerly ANDIAB has been a key NADC project
project that relies on member centres collecting clinical data on a biennial basis
AQSMA (Australian Quality Self Management Audit) formerly ANDIAB2, collects data
specifically related to diabetes education and self-care on a biennial basis.
Site reports are provided to enable participating centres to benchmark their own data against
against that of others and with the NHMRC guidelines
These are important quality assurance activities which promote continuous improvement in the
improvement in the standard of service provided by Diabetes Centres.

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The Key NADC Activities:
2. Best Practice in Diabetes Centres (BPDC)
The Best Practice in Diabetes Centres Meetings has been an integral
educational/policy/service provision forum for NADC members.
There have been 5 meetings in Sydney starting in 2007
The program is organised by the NADC steering committee and is by invitation and
invitation and requires NADC membership to be eligible to attend.
These meetings are an interactive forum intended to canvass/discuss issues
important to Diabetes Centres/Services.
Next meeting planned for Oct 2015

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The Key NADC Activities:
3 . Diabetes Management in the General Care Setting:
A National Training Program for Nurses and Allied Health Professionals
This Training Program has recently been updated with funding kindly provided by Boehringer

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Diabetes Database
The NADC have appointed BioGrid an IT company to
implement a clinical database for use by NADC Centres.
This can serve as a medical record with many other functions
functions and benefits.
The program will also be an extremely valuable source of data
data for practice evaluation and auditing across all NADC
NADC centres.
More information is available at: http://nadc.net.au/biogrid-
http://nadc.net.au/biogrid-database/

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Accreditation
The NADC has commenced an accreditation system for NADC member centres
centres
The aim is to establish NADC Tertiary Diabetes & Care Centres as proven Centres of
Centres of Excellence in diabetes care.
This is an important part of the process of demonstrating to the Commonwealth
Commonwealth and State Health authorities that NADC Diabetes Centres offer high
offer high standard multidisciplinary care that cannot be replicated in primary care.

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Communication
Development of a stand alone website had provided NADC with a valuable
communication tool to improve member information and access that contains all
contains all NADC resources, upcoming events and NADC forms
More details and regular updates are available from:
WEB: www.nadc.net.au
EMAIL: admin@nadc.net.au
TWITTER: @NADCaustralia

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For further information
Website: www.nadc.net.au
Email: admin@nadc.net.au