Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
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As a
person with
parent of a child with
Type 1
Type 2
diabetes, I am very concerned that when NHS Diabetes is dissolved on 31st March 2013, its gathered wisdom will go to waste. NHS Diabetes has achieved a great deal in recent years to champion diabetes services and tackle variations in care across the country. In 2012, it was reported that ?9.8 billion of the NHS budget was spent on treating diabetes, and 80% of that was spent on avoidable complications. This issue cannot be resolved without focussed national leadership, and it would take some years to restore the level of expertise which is about to be lost.
I understand there is still a brief opportunity to prevent the expertise gained by the staff and the organisation from being discarded, and I would urge you to do whatever you can to make sure the needs of people with
Type 1
Type 2
diabetes continue to be addressed by a focussed national leadership.
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As a
person with
parent of a child with
Type 1
Type 2
diabetes, I am very concerned that when NHS Diabetes is dissolved on 31st March 2013, its gathered wisdom will go to waste. NHS Diabetes has achieved a great deal in recent years to champion diabetes services and tackle variations in care across the country. In 2012, it was reported that ?9.8 billion of the NHS budget was spent on treating diabetes, and 80% of that was spent on avoidable complications. This issue cannot be resolved without focussed national leadership, and it would take some years to restore the level of expertise which is about to be lost.
I understand there is still a brief opportunity to prevent the expertise gained by the staff and the organisation from being discarded, and I would urge you to do whatever you can to make sure the needs of people with
Type 1
Type 2
diabetes continue to be addressed by a focussed national leadership.
2 - Click on http://www.theyworkforyou.com/
3 - Enter your postcode under ?Your Representative? (top left)
4 - Click on ?Send a message to ?.?
5 - Follow instructions given, pasting in the copied message and removing the options that don?t apply.
