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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
GLASGOW, Scotland — A lively debate on the relevance of recent guidelines on type 1 diabetes from the UK health watchdog, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) ensued last week at the Diabetes UK 2016 Professional Conference.
The crux of the matter, argued Partha Kar, MBBS, MD, MRCP, clinical director of diabetes, Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust, United Kingdom, is that due to financial constraints in the National Health Service (NHS), it is virtually impossible for doctors to provide type 1 diabetes patients with the kind of services that NICE says they should be receiving.
"These are very difficult times, we are struggling and battling; diabetes is dropping as a priority," he told the audience in a talk entitled: "NICE guidelines, type 1 diabetes: A utopian fantasy."
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/860085
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Featuring our own Mike (everydayupsanddowns) 🙂
The crux of the matter, argued Partha Kar, MBBS, MD, MRCP, clinical director of diabetes, Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust, United Kingdom, is that due to financial constraints in the National Health Service (NHS), it is virtually impossible for doctors to provide type 1 diabetes patients with the kind of services that NICE says they should be receiving.
"These are very difficult times, we are struggling and battling; diabetes is dropping as a priority," he told the audience in a talk entitled: "NICE guidelines, type 1 diabetes: A utopian fantasy."
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/860085
(free registration)
Featuring our own Mike (everydayupsanddowns) 🙂
