Changing Diabetes Barometer
At the Global Changing Diabetes® Leadership Forum on 13–14 March 2007 in New York City, Lars Rebien Sørensen, president and CEO of Novo Nordisk, announced that the company is taking steps to develop a Changing Diabetes® Barometer.
The Barometer is a scorecard to monitor, on an annual basis, the fight against diabetes, helping to establish the level of measurability necessary in order to track and guide improvements in diabetes care.
A crucial driver of improving diabetes care is the continuous measurement of the status of prevention, progress and treatment of the disease on international, national, regional and local levels across countries. This will enable national target setting and benchmarking of clinics to identify best-practice cases and develop the ‘con-structive’ competition needed to drive change.
The Changing Diabetes® Barometer aims to inspire and support key national stakeholders to take action and establish measurement systems that can be applied as part of their national healthcare systems. The long-term vision is to establish a global baseline when countries around the world have established measurement systems within diabetes care.
The Barometer is a process to improve lives of people with diabetes by:
- Measuring = registering the quality of diabetes care
- Sharing = communicating the results
- Improving = encouraging best practice
The first international Changing Diabetes® Barometer report provides an overview of results found in 21 countries and was presented on 7 November 2007 at a media roundtable event in Brussels.
The second Barometer report is due to be published around World Diabetes Day 2008.
For further information on the Changing Diabetes® Barometer, please view this backgrounder and the press release.
