The National Diabetes Register was introduced in 2016 by the amendment of Act No. 372/2011 Coll. , on health services and conditions of their provision (Act on Health Services), by Act No. 147/2016 Coll. with effect from 1 July 2016.  

It is a new type of register that uses as much as possible already existing data in the healthcare sector, namely the data of the National Register of Reimbursed Health Services (NRHZS), i.e. the administrative data of health insurance companies supplemented by data from laboratories that already exist in their information systems and data collection from nursing staff physicians involved in a referral network of providers or in planned observational studies.

Risk and prognostic factors of the disease, data related to the disease and its treatment, personal and family history of the patient related to the disease, including classification of the type and state of diabetes and laboratory values, provision of dispensary care are processed in the register; data needed to identify the provider diagnosing, treating and providing dispensary care.

The basic statistical unit of the record in the register is the record of diabetes.

The register provides an overview of a population-relevant disease from the point of view of epidemiology, treatment and control of diabetes at a hitherto inaccessible detailed level with minimal effort, as it is mostly the use of already existing data.

Mandatory duties and irreplaceable functions of the register:

• Monitoring the epidemiology of diabetes and its treatment as a socially extremely serious disease affecting a significant part of the population
• Monitoring the quality and outcomes of diabetes care
• Data reporting for EUROSTAT, WHO, OECD databases