Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Clinical commissioning groups should review how well their diabetes services achieve the NICE-recommended care processes and outcome measures, and put in place an action plan to improve performance so that people with diabetes get the care they should, insists Diabetes UK. The charity has uncovered huge variation in care across England, with the best-performing CCGs offering 78% of people with diabetes all eight checks that they need, compared with just 19% of patients in the worst CCG area. Even for the three most important measures ? monitoring blood glucose, blood pressure and cholesterol ? compliance varied from 28% in the best-performing CCG to 17% in the worst.
The charity also found that there has been little overall improvement in standards of care. It welcomed the increase in the proportion of children and young people receiving all care processes, but pointed out that it is still only 5.8%. What is more, only 16% of this age group achieved the recommended HbA1c target of less than 7.5%.
http://www.onmedica.com/newsarticle.aspx?id=bf74b0fa-8761-45c7-a1d4-ea9d6db9f857
The charity also found that there has been little overall improvement in standards of care. It welcomed the increase in the proportion of children and young people receiving all care processes, but pointed out that it is still only 5.8%. What is more, only 16% of this age group achieved the recommended HbA1c target of less than 7.5%.
http://www.onmedica.com/newsarticle.aspx?id=bf74b0fa-8761-45c7-a1d4-ea9d6db9f857