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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
YORK and Scarborough have some of the highest rates of diabetic patients having amputations in England, figures have shown.
Nationally thousands of patients may be facing unnecessary leg amputations because of variations in practice around the country, the All Party Parliamentary Group on Vascular Disease has said.
In the York area 4.1 people per thousand with diabetes have had an amputation and 4.2 in the Scarborough area. This places them as having the sixth and fifth highest amputation rates for diabetic patients in England.
Neil Carmichael MP, chair of the group, said: “Too many patients aren’t getting the treatment they need to avoid losing their legs.
http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/rye...ic_amputations_in_York_and_Scarborough_areas/
Nationally thousands of patients may be facing unnecessary leg amputations because of variations in practice around the country, the All Party Parliamentary Group on Vascular Disease has said.
In the York area 4.1 people per thousand with diabetes have had an amputation and 4.2 in the Scarborough area. This places them as having the sixth and fifth highest amputation rates for diabetic patients in England.
Neil Carmichael MP, chair of the group, said: “Too many patients aren’t getting the treatment they need to avoid losing their legs.
http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/rye...ic_amputations_in_York_and_Scarborough_areas/