Ministers urged to improve diabetes checks

[Northerner]

One in five people with diabetes are meeting targets to keep their condition under control, a charity has warned.

Just 20% of people in England and Wales hit the recommended levels for blood pressure, cholesterol and blood sugar, figures from Diabetes UK suggest.

It wants more people to get the recommended annual checks and action taken against parts of the NHS with the worst record.

The Department of Health said it wants to improve diabetes services.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-21967936

 

[Steff]

Are meeting or not meeting? Or am I reading first paragraphs wrong

 

[AlisonM]

I think Aunty has contracted Grauniad Disease. The Guardian used to be notorious for it's errors of spelling and grammar, but I've noticed more and more errors appearing on the Beeb's website in recent months. Maybe they made all the editors redundant.

 

[AlisonM]

Sorry, I forgot. I think that should read "are not meeting".

 

[Andy HB]

Actually, I think the sentence is correct. 1 in 5 and 20% are one and the same. So, 1 in 5 or 20% are meeting the targets.

It's just that they have repeated the same information but in two different ways (as if we're likely to forget what they said, so they repeat it just to make sure we don't!).

Andy 🙂