Quality Standards for Diabetes Care Toolkit

Assessment tools

Structure

The National Health Service (NHS)/Diabetes UK developed a resource for evaluating patient diabetes education: Assessment of Patient Education in Diabetes in Scotland & Tool for the Assessment of Patient Education in Diabetes in Scotland (2012). It contains guidance on quality assurance and measurement and can be accessed at: www.diabetesinscotland.org.uk/Publications/211112Diabetes%20-%20ADEPTS_TADEPTS-web-revised.pdf.
Assessment of Primary Care Resources and Supports for Chronic Disease Self-Management (PCRS): Assessment of how well general practice services are structured to provide long term condition care can be useful to identify gaps and required improvements. The following tool was developed for primary health care settings interested in improving self-management support systems and service delivery (2006 by the Diabetes Initiative with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation^® in Princeton, New Jersey. Revised December 2008. Copyright^© 2006 Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis). It is to be used with primary health care multidisciplinary teams (eg, medical practitioners, nurses, dietitians, social workers, community health workers or others) that work together to manage patients’ health care and assist them to focus on actions that can be taken to support self-management by patients with diabetes and/or other chronic conditions. It is suggested that teams use it periodically (eg, quarterly, semi-annually) as a way to monitor their progress and guide the integration of self-management supports into their system of health care. http://improveselfmanagement.org/PCRS.pdf.