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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
NURSING cuts are stoking a diabetes timebomb of untold misery and huge costs, it was claimed yesterday.
The relentless rise of Type 2 diabetes, fuelled by rampant obesity, is outpacing the NHS’ ability to help patients, said a senior nurse.
“The number of people with diabetes is growing each year but where are the nurses to deal with it? If we don’t invest money now we are facing a timebomb of massive costs dealing with the complications such as amputations and blindness,” said Keith Booles, a diabetes nurse educator, at the Royal College of Nursing Congress, in Liverpool, yesterday.
“It is scandalous. Caseloads are going up yet the number of specialists nurses are being reduced.
“Nurses need to be trained and educated to give good care and at the moment that clearly is not happening.”
http://www.express.co.uk/news/healt...uts-diabetes-patients-could-become-a-timebomb
The relentless rise of Type 2 diabetes, fuelled by rampant obesity, is outpacing the NHS’ ability to help patients, said a senior nurse.
“The number of people with diabetes is growing each year but where are the nurses to deal with it? If we don’t invest money now we are facing a timebomb of massive costs dealing with the complications such as amputations and blindness,” said Keith Booles, a diabetes nurse educator, at the Royal College of Nursing Congress, in Liverpool, yesterday.
“It is scandalous. Caseloads are going up yet the number of specialists nurses are being reduced.
“Nurses need to be trained and educated to give good care and at the moment that clearly is not happening.”
http://www.express.co.uk/news/healt...uts-diabetes-patients-could-become-a-timebomb