Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Boots and Diabetes UK have defended their diabetes risk assessment service against GPs' claims that it could confuse patients and increase NHS workload.
The organisations dismissed arguments that the pharmacy-based screening service, launched last Tuesday (January 22), could force GPs to bear the brunt of "unnecessary workload" generated by referrals. But Boots and Diabetes UK countered that running the service in pharmacies would boost earlier diagnosis of type 2 diabetes.
The BMA's GP committee (GPC) suggested this week that the service, in which Boots pharmacists ask customers seven questions to assess their likelihood of developing type 2 diabetes, had not been "properly thought through".
http://www.chemistanddruggist.co.uk...shes-with-gps-over-diabetes-screening-service
The organisations dismissed arguments that the pharmacy-based screening service, launched last Tuesday (January 22), could force GPs to bear the brunt of "unnecessary workload" generated by referrals. But Boots and Diabetes UK countered that running the service in pharmacies would boost earlier diagnosis of type 2 diabetes.
The BMA's GP committee (GPC) suggested this week that the service, in which Boots pharmacists ask customers seven questions to assess their likelihood of developing type 2 diabetes, had not been "properly thought through".
http://www.chemistanddruggist.co.uk...shes-with-gps-over-diabetes-screening-service
