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Diabetes prevention schemes 'should be as accessible as smoking cessation programmes', a senior GP who helped design the new national programme has said.
The NHS diabetes prevention programme, launched today, aims to prevent the condition developing in high-risk people in England.
Dr Charles Alessi, from Public Health England and the National Association of Primary Care, told GP that patients should be able to self-refer to diabetes prevention programmes to take the burden off doctors.
‘There are millions of ways people can be referred for smoking cessation services -they can contact centres directly, go through community pharmacy, be referred by primary care or from hospitals,’ he said. ‘The same sorts of approaches are going to be used here. It’s not about a single door to enter treatment.’
http://www.gponline.com/preventing-...ble-stopping-smoking/diabetes/article/1337820
The NHS diabetes prevention programme, launched today, aims to prevent the condition developing in high-risk people in England.
Dr Charles Alessi, from Public Health England and the National Association of Primary Care, told GP that patients should be able to self-refer to diabetes prevention programmes to take the burden off doctors.
‘There are millions of ways people can be referred for smoking cessation services -they can contact centres directly, go through community pharmacy, be referred by primary care or from hospitals,’ he said. ‘The same sorts of approaches are going to be used here. It’s not about a single door to enter treatment.’
http://www.gponline.com/preventing-...ble-stopping-smoking/diabetes/article/1337820