The NADC was established in 1994 to improve diabetes care standards through specialist centres. It aims to promote collaboration and information sharing between centres, link them to non-specialist providers, collect data to improve care standards, and help centres maintain excellence. There are currently 64 member centres in Australia that are classified as Tertiary, Care, or Affiliate centres based on their services and staffing. The NADC conducts the Australian National Diabetes Audit to benchmark centres and drive quality improvement. It also holds Best Practice meetings and provides diabetes management training. Current projects include implementing a clinical database and developing an accreditation system for centres of excellence.

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

3. 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 as centres of excellence.

4. Membership
 There are currently 64 NADC centres across Australia
 Current membership and a list of accredited centres
can be found on the NADC website at
www.nadc.net.au
 3 types of diabetes centres:

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

6. Types of Centres
2. NADC Diabetes Care Centres
 A full‐time or equivalent Registered Nurse Credentialled
Diabetes Educator who is a member of the ADEA.
 An Accredited Practising Dietitian working a minimum of two
sessions a week activities relating to the Service
 Monitor their outcomes through participation in ANDA

7. Types of Centres
3. NADC Affiliate Diabetes Centres
 A Medical Practitioner involved in diabetes care
 Registered Nurse (who has completed General Care Course)
or Credentialled Diabetes Educator
 Regular interdisciplinary communication and team meetings

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

9. 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 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 that of others and with the NHMRC guidelines
 These are important quality assurance activities which promote continuous
improvement in the standard of service provided by Diabetes Centres.
 In 2013, 30 Centres participated

10. 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
 The meeting is by 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

11. 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 Ingelheim / Lilly Alliance
 The training provides a standardised basic diabetes training program containing
introductory information about diabetes and its management.
 The program is aimed at registered and enrolled nurses, allied health staff, and other
staff from other generalist hospital, community, nursing home, and other care facilities
including drug and alcohol and respite care services.
 More information and applications forms www.nadc.net.au

12. Current Projects
Diabetes Database
 The NADC data base sub-committee 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 and benefits
 The program will also be an extremely valuable source of data for practice
evaluation and auditing across all NADC centres

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

14. Communication
 Development of a stand alone website had provided NADC with a valuable
communication tool to improve member information and access that contains all
NADC resources, upcoming events and all NADC forms
 Twitter account
 Regular member emails
WEB: www.nadc.net.au
EMAIL: admin@nadc.net.au
TWITTER: @NADCaustralia

15. For further information
www.nadc.net.au
admin@nadc.net.au