General practice and the use of CVDPREVENT audit data for purposes of the national obesity audit

The new National Obesity Audit (NOA) supports NHS England’s Long Term Plan commitment to build an evidence base for interventions for people who are overweight and living with obesity. For it to be successful, they require a link to primary care patient level data which will enable critical analysis of longitudinal weight change and improvement aims.

To avoid creating a new audit and any additional burden on general practice, NHS England is reusing existing information from general practice to support the NOA. They are looking to the CVDPREVENT (CVDP) audit to provide the relevant data.

A data provision notice will be issued on 7 November 2023 to kindly request that all general practices ‘opt in’ and approve reuse of CVDP data via the Calculating Quality Reporting Service (CQRS). General practice participation is critical to help to improve services for patients with overweight and obesity.

Further information about the NOA, the use of CVDPREVENT data and what it means for general practice, can be found in Appendix A which you can find in the download area.

Download: NHSE letter; The use of CVDPREVENT audit data