The National Centre for Monitoring Diabetes
Recent releases
Prevention of cardiovascular disease, diabetes and chronic kidney disease: targeting risk factors (11 December 2009) (media release and publication)
Diabetes prevalence in Australia: an assessment of national data sources (13 October 2009) (publication)
Insulin-treated diabetes in Australia 2000-2007 (21 August 2009) (media release and publication)
Gestational diabetes mellitus in Australia, 2005-06 (3 December 2008) (media release and publication)
Incidence of Type 1 diabetes in Australia 2000-2006: first results (2 July 2008) (media release and publication)
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Overview
The National Centre for Monitoring Diabetes sits within the Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes Unit. It was formed as a response to a recommendation by the National Diabetes Strategy and Implementation Plan (1998) to improve information on diabetes.
Objectives
Our aim is to coordinate national efforts to monitor diabetes, its risk factors and complications. Monitoring of diabetes is needed to provide appropriate, timely and valid information to inform policy makers, service providers and the public about the magnitude of the diabetes problem. Information is also necessary in order to develop best-practice guidelines and strategies, evaluate the cost of effectiveness of interventional strategies and generate baselines for monitoring progress. For further information about the national system for monitoring diabetes see our publication: The National System for Monitoring Diabetes in Australia.
National Diabetes Data Working Group
The National Diabetes Data Working Group, chaired by Associate Professor Jeff Flack, is the national advisory committee to the National Centre for Monitoring Diabetes and the National Diabetes Register. The Working Group includes clinical and health data administration experts.
The Working Group also manages the National Diabetes Outcome Quality Review Initiative. This is a national diabetes initiative aimed at improving the quality of diabetes care in Australia. It facilitates the local collection of diabetes data consistent with national standards for use in quality assessment and to enable quality clinical diabetes data to be pooled and analysed.
Secretariat: The National Centre for Monitoring Diabetes, GPO Box 570, Canberra, ACT, 2601. Phone: 02 6244 1000; Fax: 02 6244 1299; email
Last reviewed by on 6 July 2006