Scottish Diabetes Survey 2002

CONCLUSION
The 2002 Survey provides information for about two thirds of the patients with diabetes in Scotland. One NHS Board did not provide data and many others provided data only for subgroups of their population. It is anticipated that the implementation of SCI-DC will facilitate the development of more comprehensive diabetes registers in each Board area.
There has been an improvement in the quality of data recorded for those on registers. This survey has concentrated on whether or not data is available on a local register rather than analysing data accuracy, or clinical interpretation. In future surveys the Diabetes Survey Monitoring Group wish to begin to analyse clinical information, rather than monitor only the collection of data.
The Diabetes Survey Monitoring Group consider that the use of expected diabetes prevalence (corrected for age and, where possible, other attributes) would be more illuminating than the presentation of data based only on registered patients. This will be explored in more detail in the 2003 Survey.
The Diabetes Survey Monitoring Group has no concerns about data protection, because the data are anonymised and aggregated with no raw data being submitted for analysis.
Finally, the Monitoring Group wishes to acknowledge the commitment and hard work of all those who have contributed to the 2002 Scottish Diabetes Survey and to the development of local clinical management systems upon which this Survey is based.

The Scottish Government