There has been continued improvement in diabetes care and control among children over the last six years, according the annual national audit. The numbe...
Posts Tagged ‘Diabetes’
Diabetes: care and control for children in England and Wales ‘significantly improved’
By Mark Jones - March 9th, 2017
Regulator says more work needed to provide personalised diabetes care
By Mike Broad - September 7th, 2016
Diabetes services need to help patients self-manage their condition better. This is the finding of CQC review that explores the quality of care for peop...
Diabetes: it is within our gift to work with our patients and make it better
By Partha Kar - February 5th, 2016
With a flourish, the National Diabetes Audit has made its annual appearance - and being part of the core audit group, I already knew what was coming. Th...
Diabetes: significant reduction in diabetes-related amputations since the mid-1990s
By Mark Jones - November 28th, 2015
There has been a significant reduction in diabetes-related amputations since the mid-1990s, a study finds. Amputations of the lower limbs are one of the...
Five million adults in England ‘at risk of developing type 2 diabetes’
BBC News - August 26th, 2015
Up to five million people in England are at risk of developing type-2 diabetes, according to new data from Public Health England. Type-2 diabetes is clo...
Call for NHS to deliver annual foot check
By Mike Broad - April 27th, 2015
More than 400,000 people with diabetes in England are not having an annual foot check, despite these being important for preventing diabetes-related amputa...
Paediatrics: Share best practice to improve paediatric diabetes care say doctors
By Mark Jones - October 25th, 2014
Positive advances in the care of paediatric diabetes in England and Wales have, for the first time in ten years, started to demonstrate some improvement in...
Healthy lifestyle could prevent nearly half of all diabetic pregnancies
By Mark Jones - October 1st, 2014
Nearly half of all cases of gestational diabetes could be prevented if young women eat well, exercise regularly and stop smoking before and during pregnanc...
Diabetes: Online e-learning programme Type 2 Diabetes and Me wins award
By Mike Broad - September 29th, 2014
The online e-learning programme Type 2 Diabetes has and Me has won a BMA Patient Information Award 2014 in the ‘long-term conditions’ special category....
Obesity: expansion of weight loss surgery in England proposed to tackle Type 2 Diabetes
BBC Health - July 11th, 2014
An expansion of weight loss surgery in England is being proposed to tackle an epidemic of type 2 diabetes. New draft guidelines from the National Institut...
Diabetes: Postcode lottery for annual diabetes checks, says DUK
By Mike Broad - June 23rd, 2014
People with diabetes are four times more likely to get vital annual checks if they live in the best performing area in England than if they live in the wor...
