Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Last year our State of the Nation report highlighted a major health crisis. More and more people were living with or at risk of Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes. Growing numbers of them were experiencing devastating complications, but the NHS still struggled to deliver the care and education people with diabetes need to manage their condition.
This year?s report shows that diabetes continues to be a major challenge for the NHS. It is still a huge drain on resources, quality of care still depends on where you live, and the crisis is still not being taken seriously. The key problems we highlighted last year remain, and these will only worsen as the numbers involved increase.
Almost a quarter of a million people were diagnosed with diabetes last year; couple these with our estimates for undiagnosed diabetes and that means a massive 7.4 per cent of England?s population live with the condition.
The quality of diabetes care across the country is still patchy and risks making the already unacceptable ?postcode lottery? in standards of prevention and care worse.
http://www.diabetes.org.uk/About_us...services--standards/State-of-the-Nation-2013/
This year?s report shows that diabetes continues to be a major challenge for the NHS. It is still a huge drain on resources, quality of care still depends on where you live, and the crisis is still not being taken seriously. The key problems we highlighted last year remain, and these will only worsen as the numbers involved increase.
Almost a quarter of a million people were diagnosed with diabetes last year; couple these with our estimates for undiagnosed diabetes and that means a massive 7.4 per cent of England?s population live with the condition.
The quality of diabetes care across the country is still patchy and risks making the already unacceptable ?postcode lottery? in standards of prevention and care worse.
http://www.diabetes.org.uk/About_us...services--standards/State-of-the-Nation-2013/