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- Type 1
GP leaders have called for a Public Health England (PHE) league table for diabetes care to be scrapped, amid concerns that huge gaps in data in many areas had skewed CCG scores.
PHE launched the Healthy Lives online tool last week, which ranks practices and CCGs in an online league table based on the quality of diabetes care they provide.
But GP can reveal the dataset behind the tool is based on incomplete data, with scores for one in five CCGs based on information from less than half of practices in the area.
GP leaders warned that using ‘half-baked’ information ‘completely discredits the value and merits of the process’, and urged PHE to admit it 'got it wrong'.
Among several care measures, the tool ranks CCGs based on the proportion of patients with diabetes who meet all treatment targets for the condition.
http://www.gponline.com/exclusive-gp-anger-unfair-diabetes-league-table/diabetes/article/1321032
(free registration)
PHE launched the Healthy Lives online tool last week, which ranks practices and CCGs in an online league table based on the quality of diabetes care they provide.
But GP can reveal the dataset behind the tool is based on incomplete data, with scores for one in five CCGs based on information from less than half of practices in the area.
GP leaders warned that using ‘half-baked’ information ‘completely discredits the value and merits of the process’, and urged PHE to admit it 'got it wrong'.
Among several care measures, the tool ranks CCGs based on the proportion of patients with diabetes who meet all treatment targets for the condition.
http://www.gponline.com/exclusive-gp-anger-unfair-diabetes-league-table/diabetes/article/1321032
(free registration)