Current plans for NHS DESP include extension of screening intervals in low-risk groups and the introduction of optical coherence tomography as a second line of screening for those with screen positive maculopathy with two dimensional markers. Future challenges include the introduction of automated analysis for grading and new camera technologies (Acta Diabetologica)
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National Diabetes Audit, Diabetes Prevention Programme (DPP), Quarterly Data Release, 1st January – 30th September 2020
The NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme (DPP) is a joint commitment from NHS England, Public Health England (PHE) and Diabetes UK to deliver, at scale, evidence based behavioural interventions that can prevent or delay the onset of Type 2 diabetes in adults who have been identified as having non-diabetic hyperglycaemia
Record high two million people at risk of Type 2 Diabetes
Around two million people in England are at risk of developing Type 2 diabetes, the highest on record, according to new NHS figures
Diabetes Prevention Programme – Information Governance and Data Flows Framework
Updated: August 2019 (NHS England Diabetes Programme Team and Data Sharing and Privacy Unit, NHS England & NHS Improvement)
Diabetic foot ulcer incidence and survival with improved diabetic foot services: an 18‐year study
Integrated care for the diabetic foot in one National Health Service (NHS) health service area over 18 years was associated with a reduction in first presentations of diabetic foot ulceration, but failed to reduce recurrent ulceration. Cumulative prevalence of all ulcers continues to increase (Diabetic Medicine)
NHS RightCare Pathway: Diabetes
NHS RightCare
The management of adult diabetes services in the NHS: progress review
Progress has been made to reduce the additional risk of death for people with diabetes. However, 22,000 are still estimated to be dying each year from diabetes related causes (National Audit Office)
Together for Health – A Diabetes Delivery Plan
A Delivery Plan up to 2016 for NHS Wales and its partners
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