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Southport MP John Pugh is backing a call by Diabetes UK for local action to improve the poor state of diabetes care, which is fuelling a major health crisis.
Mr Pugh attended Diabetes UK’s parliamentary launch of its State of the Nation 2015 report, which has highlighted that across the country many people with diabetes are not getting the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence recommended annual checks that they need to manage their condition. This is leading to record rates of complications, avoidable deaths and huge costs to the NHS.
The NHS spends £10 billion annually on diabetes, but 80 per cent of this cost is spent on complications such as blindness, amputations and stroke that could be avoided if the person got the right healthcare in the first place.
http://www.southportvisiter.co.uk/news/health/mp-backs-call-local-action-8542089
Mr Pugh attended Diabetes UK’s parliamentary launch of its State of the Nation 2015 report, which has highlighted that across the country many people with diabetes are not getting the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence recommended annual checks that they need to manage their condition. This is leading to record rates of complications, avoidable deaths and huge costs to the NHS.
The NHS spends £10 billion annually on diabetes, but 80 per cent of this cost is spent on complications such as blindness, amputations and stroke that could be avoided if the person got the right healthcare in the first place.
http://www.southportvisiter.co.uk/news/health/mp-backs-call-local-action-8542089