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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
The three treatment targets for diabetes - controlling blood pressure, blood sugar and cholesterol - are being met for just a third of patients in England, Public Health England has reported.
And nowhere across the country is meeting all three targets well – the average is 36% and the best is 48%, according to Healthier Lives, a new online tool produced by PHE. This interactive “heat map” includes information on the prevalence of diabetes and high blood pressure, levels of care provided and the quality of care achieved in each area by local authority (LA), clinical commissioning group (CCG) and general practice, compared to the England average.
Its findings reveal not only large variations in treatment but also in the provision of NHS Health Checks across the country, showing that there is a postcode lottery in diabetes care, which the charity Diabetes UK says is “deeply worrying.”
http://www.pharmatimes.com/Article/..._met_for_two-thirds_of_diabetes_patients.aspx
And nowhere across the country is meeting all three targets well – the average is 36% and the best is 48%, according to Healthier Lives, a new online tool produced by PHE. This interactive “heat map” includes information on the prevalence of diabetes and high blood pressure, levels of care provided and the quality of care achieved in each area by local authority (LA), clinical commissioning group (CCG) and general practice, compared to the England average.
Its findings reveal not only large variations in treatment but also in the provision of NHS Health Checks across the country, showing that there is a postcode lottery in diabetes care, which the charity Diabetes UK says is “deeply worrying.”
http://www.pharmatimes.com/Article/..._met_for_two-thirds_of_diabetes_patients.aspx