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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Exclusive NHS chiefs are planning to introduce incentives for GP practices to carry out targeted screening and follow up of patients at high risk of diabetes, under the new national prevention programme announced this week.
Pulse can reveal that the new drive, aimed at curbing the growing incidence of type 2 diabetes, will see practices paid to create a register of patients at high risk of going on to develop diabetes and for reaching targets on follow-up interventions.
The national diabetes prevention strategy, led jointly by NHS England, Public Health England and Diabetes UK, will see at-risk patients receive free cooking classes and Zumba on prescription and is set to be rolled out nationally from April next year.
In the meantime, seven pilots have been set up to assess ways to identify people at risk, for example through GP practice-run schemes and the NHS Health Checks programme, as well approaches to help people lose weight and normalise their blood glucose.
http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/clinica...on-targets-into-gp-contract-/20009450.article
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It would be nice if they would also address the terrible after-care a lot of people receive after diagnosis - better understanding, education, and the tools and follow ups to give people the best possible chance of reducing medications and risks. It always seems that all the energy is put into trying to prevent diabetes, which is laudable, but so often it seems that if you don't avoid it then it's 'your own fault for not doing as you were told, so suck it up!'
Pulse can reveal that the new drive, aimed at curbing the growing incidence of type 2 diabetes, will see practices paid to create a register of patients at high risk of going on to develop diabetes and for reaching targets on follow-up interventions.
The national diabetes prevention strategy, led jointly by NHS England, Public Health England and Diabetes UK, will see at-risk patients receive free cooking classes and Zumba on prescription and is set to be rolled out nationally from April next year.
In the meantime, seven pilots have been set up to assess ways to identify people at risk, for example through GP practice-run schemes and the NHS Health Checks programme, as well approaches to help people lose weight and normalise their blood glucose.
http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/clinica...on-targets-into-gp-contract-/20009450.article
(free registration required)
It would be nice if they would also address the terrible after-care a lot of people receive after diagnosis - better understanding, education, and the tools and follow ups to give people the best possible chance of reducing medications and risks. It always seems that all the energy is put into trying to prevent diabetes, which is laudable, but so often it seems that if you don't avoid it then it's 'your own fault for not doing as you were told, so suck it up!'