Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Diabetes care in the NHS is poor, with low achievement of treatment standards, high numbers of avoidable deaths and annual spending reaching an estimated ?3.9 billion.
"The Department of Health has failed to deliver diabetes care to the standard it set out as long ago as 2001. This has resulted in people with diabetes developing avoidable complications, in a high number of preventable deaths and in increased costs for the NHS.
"The expected 23 per cent increase by 2020 in the number of people in England with diabetes will have a major impact on NHS resources unless the efficiency and effectiveness of existing services are substantially improved."
Amyas Morse, head of the National Audit Office, 23 May 2012
The National Audit Office has today issued a report examining whether the NHS in England is providing recommended standards of care to people with diabetes. The report finds that, despite some improvements since 2006-07, there is poor performance against expected levels of care, low achievement of treatment standards and high numbers of avoidable deaths, and concludes that diabetes services in England are not delivering value for money.
http://www.nao.org.uk/publications/1213/adult_diabetes_services.aspx
"The Department of Health has failed to deliver diabetes care to the standard it set out as long ago as 2001. This has resulted in people with diabetes developing avoidable complications, in a high number of preventable deaths and in increased costs for the NHS.
"The expected 23 per cent increase by 2020 in the number of people in England with diabetes will have a major impact on NHS resources unless the efficiency and effectiveness of existing services are substantially improved."
Amyas Morse, head of the National Audit Office, 23 May 2012
The National Audit Office has today issued a report examining whether the NHS in England is providing recommended standards of care to people with diabetes. The report finds that, despite some improvements since 2006-07, there is poor performance against expected levels of care, low achievement of treatment standards and high numbers of avoidable deaths, and concludes that diabetes services in England are not delivering value for money.
http://www.nao.org.uk/publications/1213/adult_diabetes_services.aspx