Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what progress they are making in implementing a patient experience survey for patients with diabetes.

The Patient Experience of Diabetes Services (PEDS) pilot, a module of the National Diabetes Audit, was run last year. While the potential value of this survey is clear, there are other competing priorities for adding modules to existing national audits such as this. There is a robust process for assessing these, as well as which new national audits should be considered. As such, NHS England will review the potential to fund the PEDS survey alongside other Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership commissioned national audit and associated modules.

Other NHS England surveys capture the experiences of people with a wide range of conditions including diabetes. However, with the exception of the cancer patient experience survey, the information is not collected by specific conditions. As part of a forthcoming review of patient experience surveys, NHS England will consider whether it is best to collect information as it does currently or by specific conditions.