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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
The poor state of diabetes healthcare in England is leading to avoidable deaths, record rates of complications and huge costs to the NHS, according to a report published today (Wednesday 14th January) by Diabetes UK.
The charity’s annual State of the Nation report (PDF, 541KB) shows there has been very little overall improvement in diabetes healthcare in the past year, with 40 per cent of people with diabetes still not getting the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence recommended checks that they need to manage their condition. Some aspects of care have got worse, such as the numbers of people with Type 1 diabetes receiving their annual checks, which has reduced from 43 to 41 per cent.
This is despite the fact that spending on diabetes accounts for about 10 per cent of the entire NHS budget. But Diabetes UK has warned that the vast majority – about 80 per cent – of this money is being spent on treating complications and not enough being invested on the good healthcare that could prevent them.
http://www.diabetes.org.uk/About_us/News/Poor-state-of-diabetes-care-costing-lives-and-money-/
Shameful
The charity’s annual State of the Nation report (PDF, 541KB) shows there has been very little overall improvement in diabetes healthcare in the past year, with 40 per cent of people with diabetes still not getting the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence recommended checks that they need to manage their condition. Some aspects of care have got worse, such as the numbers of people with Type 1 diabetes receiving their annual checks, which has reduced from 43 to 41 per cent.
This is despite the fact that spending on diabetes accounts for about 10 per cent of the entire NHS budget. But Diabetes UK has warned that the vast majority – about 80 per cent – of this money is being spent on treating complications and not enough being invested on the good healthcare that could prevent them.
http://www.diabetes.org.uk/About_us/News/Poor-state-of-diabetes-care-costing-lives-and-money-/
Shameful