Diabetes Care Not Effective Despite Improved Access to Services

Wed, 16 Jun 2010
Diabetes care is not effective despite improved access to services.

Many diabetics are receiving ineffective care even though they have more access to healthcare services, latest figures have revealed.

The data is from the 2008-09 national diabetes audit, which highlights that more than 90 per cent of diabetics in England and Wales contact their healthcare teams a minimum of once a year.

However, blood pressure and blood sugar treatment targets are not being achieved and the number of individuals developing end stage renal disease has nearly doubled in six years.

The audit highlgihts that blood pressure targets are not achieved in five per cent plus of cases of patients with diabetes, more than a third had poor blood sugar control, and a third had not had a crucial urine test to detect early signs of diabetic kidney disease.

The above are three of the nine key care processes that the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence recommends all diabetics should receive.

The audit results showed that just a third of type 1 diabetics and just half of those with type 2 diabetes, received all nine.

Overall, the prevalence of diabetes has gone up 25 per cent in the past six years and 50 per cent plus of those with type 2 diabetes are now obese .

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