"The Diabetes Care Accreditation Programme (DCAP) was launched in 2022, with pilots in the East of England and Wales. It is designed to support all adult inpatient diabetes services. Inpatient diabetes care is not universally standardised and currently there is no mechanism to provided assurance that services are delivered to people with diabetes in hospital to high standards. Data from the National Diabetes Inpatient Audit (NaDIA) has shown that there is considerable variation across England and Wales and differences in levels of harm. The time is now right to agree a set of standards that, if met, will consistently provide good diabetes care in hospitals across the United Kingdom. An accreditation programme will give us a way of supporting hospitals to meet those standards and, with time, to raise the overall standard of inpatient care for diabetes patients. Accreditation is a supportive process of evaluating the quality of a service against established standards. Accreditation promotes improvement through highlighting areas of best practice and areas for change, encouraging the continued development of the clinical service. DCAP is run by the Accreditation Unit at the Royal College of Physicians (RCP), who have a long history of running successful clinical service accreditation programmes."
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