Diabetes: primary care data
Scottish Primary Care Information Resource
SPIRE is a service that allows small amounts of information from GP practice records to be used to help doctors’ surgeries, NHS Scotland and the Scottish Government to improve care and plan services, and to help researchers to learn more from patient information held at GP practices. For further information, please refer to the SPIRE website.
Practice Team Information
Until 2012/13, the Practice Team Information (PTI) programme provided information on GP consultations for diabetes in Scotland. This information can be used to estimate the national prevalence of diabetes using information collected from a representative sample of GP practices. However, the PTI system was discontinued in September 2013 and will be replaced by the Scottish Primary Care Information Resource (SPIRE). Historical information on diabetes consultations and prevalence estimates up to 2012/13 are available from the PTI pages of the PHS website.
Quality and Outcomes Framework
The Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) of the new General Medical Services contract, introduced in 2004, includes quality indicators for diabetes. The prevalence of diabetes among the population aged 17 years and over based on register sizes for new GMS contract practices in 2015/16 was 5.0%. This figure is an underestimate because the population aged under 17 years is included in the population denominator but not in the numerator. More prevalence data by NHS Board and CHP are available in the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) pages in the PHS website.
Please note: If you require the most up-to-date data available, please check the data sources directly as new data may have been published since these data pages were last updated. Although we endeavour to ensure that the data pages are kept up-to-date, there may be a time lag between new data being published and the relevant ScotPHO web pages being updated.
