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A diabetes charity has condemned the number of amputations on patients in south west England as "very poor".
The amputation rate in England is 2.7 per 1,000 patients, but Somerset and Devon's rates are 4.8 and 4.4.
Diabetes UK said numbers in the south west were "unacceptable" and blamed a "lack of organisation".
NHS trusts said the rates were a "matter of concern" and more was being done to ensure early treatment of problems to avoid amputations.
A study, published in Diabetologia, compared lower-leg amputation rates for local health trusts across England over three years.
It showed that on average 2.7 adults out of a 1,000 diabetes patients had a limb amputated, but this rose to 4.8 in Somerset, 4.6 in Dorset, 4.4 in Devon and 4 in Plymouth.
Cornwall recorded a rate of 3.6 per 1,000 and Torbay's rate was 3.1.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-17522971
The amputation rate in England is 2.7 per 1,000 patients, but Somerset and Devon's rates are 4.8 and 4.4.
Diabetes UK said numbers in the south west were "unacceptable" and blamed a "lack of organisation".
NHS trusts said the rates were a "matter of concern" and more was being done to ensure early treatment of problems to avoid amputations.
A study, published in Diabetologia, compared lower-leg amputation rates for local health trusts across England over three years.
It showed that on average 2.7 adults out of a 1,000 diabetes patients had a limb amputated, but this rose to 4.8 in Somerset, 4.6 in Dorset, 4.4 in Devon and 4 in Plymouth.
Cornwall recorded a rate of 3.6 per 1,000 and Torbay's rate was 3.1.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-17522971
