The APPG for Diabetes launches today its latest report titled ‘Levelling Up: Tackling Variation in Diabetes Care’. This report is the result of a year-long inquiry into the causes and solutions to the variation in diabetes care. The report sums up the evidence collected from healthcare professionals, academics, commissioners and people with diabetes, making recommendations for how we can secure a better diabetes care for everyone
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Type 1 Diabetes at a Crossroads!
What then are the major advances in type 1 diabetes? How close are we to realizing an intervention that can delay or prevent type 1 diabetes? Are we any closer to a cure today than we were 10 years ago? (Diabetes Care)
Diabetes Improvement Plan
Properties and actions to deliver improved prevention, treatment and care for people with diabetes in Scotland (Scottish Government)
Implementing Local Diabetes Networks
This document aims to provide information and support to commissioners to give a further understanding of the need for such an intervention and how to go about establishing a local diabetes network in their area (NHS Diabetes and Diabetes UK)
The management of adult diabetes services in the NHS
Diabetes care in the NHS is poor, with low achievement of treatment standards, high numbers of avoidable deaths and annual spending reaching an estimated £3.9 billion (National Audit Office)
Inpatient care for children with diabetes: are standards being met?
This first audit of children’s diabetes inpatient care organisation demonstrates that some standards can be achieved, but others, such as having children’s nurses on every shift in EDs, lack of dietetic advice to ward staff, and liaison with the diabetes team quickly out of hours, are more challenging (Archives of Disease in Childhood)
National Diabetes Inpatient Audit (NaDIA) 2011
The 2011 National Diabetes Inpatient Audit (NaDIA) National Report and 2010/2011 Comparative Hospital Level Analysis (NHS Information Centre)
State of the Nation 2012
We are in a state of crisis. Ministers and the NHS need to recognise this, to prioritise prevention of diabetes and its complications (Diabetes UK)
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