heasandford
Well-Known Member
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
I have received this from one of my links - hope we can support it!
I also want to highlight a campaign that is currently seeking support to force a debate in the House of Commons about structured education for people affected by diabetes. If you want to take a look at this, the link below takes you directly to the petition page, which states:
We are campaigning for the central funding of a national structured education programme for diabetics. We believe that a properly funded programme would ensure that the highest common denominator applies to the treatment of diabetic patients. The ?diabetes in adults quality standard? proposes ?structured education programmes that fulfil the nationally agreed criteria from the time of diagnosis?. Studies show clinically and statistically significant improvement in glycaemic control, without increased severe hypoglycaemia; quality of life and treatment satisfaction resulting from one course which also pays for itself within 5 years according to an economic evaluation. National funding for structured education for diabetics would mean that we can put the ?National? back into the NHS instead of patients being subject to a post code lottery with very few diabetics having access to formal structured education.
With the message: ?please sign the petition and ask your friends and family to do likewise. If it gets 100,000 signatures, a debate in the House of Commons is guaranteed.?
http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/41345
THANKS!
I also want to highlight a campaign that is currently seeking support to force a debate in the House of Commons about structured education for people affected by diabetes. If you want to take a look at this, the link below takes you directly to the petition page, which states:
We are campaigning for the central funding of a national structured education programme for diabetics. We believe that a properly funded programme would ensure that the highest common denominator applies to the treatment of diabetic patients. The ?diabetes in adults quality standard? proposes ?structured education programmes that fulfil the nationally agreed criteria from the time of diagnosis?. Studies show clinically and statistically significant improvement in glycaemic control, without increased severe hypoglycaemia; quality of life and treatment satisfaction resulting from one course which also pays for itself within 5 years according to an economic evaluation. National funding for structured education for diabetics would mean that we can put the ?National? back into the NHS instead of patients being subject to a post code lottery with very few diabetics having access to formal structured education.
With the message: ?please sign the petition and ask your friends and family to do likewise. If it gets 100,000 signatures, a debate in the House of Commons is guaranteed.?
http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/41345
THANKS!
