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The UK’s leading specialist in diabetes inpatient care has called on the NHS to take immediate action to raise standards of care in hospitals for people with diabetes.
He said action must be taken to raise standards of acute care for diabetes patients by ensuring specialist inpatient diabetes teams were “embedded” in all hospitals.
Dr Gerry Rayman is head of service at Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust’s diabetes centre, lead for the National Diabetes Inpatient Audit and a specialist medical advisor to the charity Diabetes UK.
He has advised that a new approach is needed to tackle the almost 8-10% higher mortality rate among inpatients with diabetes than other patients.
Speaking at a Diabetes UK conference this week, Dr Rayman said hospital managers and diabetes specialists must work together to implement hospital-wide safety practices.
http://www.nursingtimes.net/nursing...e=Latest-news-for-hospital-nurses&contentID=5
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My hospital (Southampton General) has a specialist diabetes team 🙂 It's dreadful that so many do not, given the prevalence of people with diabetes in hospitals - when I was in 9/10 people had diabetes on one ward I was on.
He said action must be taken to raise standards of acute care for diabetes patients by ensuring specialist inpatient diabetes teams were “embedded” in all hospitals.
Dr Gerry Rayman is head of service at Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust’s diabetes centre, lead for the National Diabetes Inpatient Audit and a specialist medical advisor to the charity Diabetes UK.
He has advised that a new approach is needed to tackle the almost 8-10% higher mortality rate among inpatients with diabetes than other patients.
Speaking at a Diabetes UK conference this week, Dr Rayman said hospital managers and diabetes specialists must work together to implement hospital-wide safety practices.
http://www.nursingtimes.net/nursing...e=Latest-news-for-hospital-nurses&contentID=5
(free registration required)
My hospital (Southampton General) has a specialist diabetes team 🙂 It's dreadful that so many do not, given the prevalence of people with diabetes in hospitals - when I was in 9/10 people had diabetes on one ward I was on.