Study: EU member states 'risk losing the battle against diabetes'

[Northerner]

Though diabetes treatment and prevention have improved in recent years, EU member states are too slow when it comes to proper implementation and monitoring of policies. This means that Europe is losing the battle against the growing diabetes epidemic, according to a new study.

The report, Diabetes in Europe: The Policy Puzzle - The State We Are In, published by the European Coalition for Diabetes reveals that more countries have a national diabetes register (30 out of 47) and that a large majority of European countries have also taken steps to tackle the burden of diabetes at policy level.

However, the report also shows that 83% of the national registers are incomplete. When it comes to national plans covering diabetes, implementation and monitoring appear to be major weaknesses. The Czech Republic is the only country in the region that includes a strong monitoring and evaluation system in its national plan. It is also the only country to assess the cost effectiveness of the measures within its plan.

http://www.euractiv.com/sections/he...es-risk-losing-battle-against-diabetes-309976

 

[trophywench]

Good for the Czechs, wonder what they are doing - be nice to know, presumably if they monitor it they also are wiling to change it if it doesn't work.

We don't change stuff that doesn't work - we take 10 years and spend millions of squid on investigations, to change something that only saves £100k a year.

Cos 'we' is NEVER wrong are 'we' ? So if we scrapped something that would be an admission of it being wrong and that would never do .....