Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
DIABETES patients in the county are not getting as many vital health checks to prevent blindness, loss of limbs and even death than patients in other parts of the region.
The charity Diabetes UK launched an awareness campaign today to get people to have a minimum of nine health checks each year, as recommended by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice).
The figures, supplied by the National Diabetes Audit which are from 2010/11 (the latest available), show that in Worcestershire only 40.2 per cent of patients with diabetes had these checks compared to top-placed Herefordshire Primary Care Trust with a figure of 66 per cent. Only Stoke on Trent had a worse take up than Worcestershire for the tests (34.9 per cent).
http://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/10376801.Diabetes_patients_in_Worcestershire_risk_blindness/
The charity Diabetes UK launched an awareness campaign today to get people to have a minimum of nine health checks each year, as recommended by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice).
The figures, supplied by the National Diabetes Audit which are from 2010/11 (the latest available), show that in Worcestershire only 40.2 per cent of patients with diabetes had these checks compared to top-placed Herefordshire Primary Care Trust with a figure of 66 per cent. Only Stoke on Trent had a worse take up than Worcestershire for the tests (34.9 per cent).
http://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/10376801.Diabetes_patients_in_Worcestershire_risk_blindness/