Diabetes: Health Education
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase awareness of preventable complications associated with diabetes.
Answered by Ashley Dalton
In England, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) recommends that people with diabetes are offered eight annual care processes in primary care, those being measurement of HbA1c, lipids, creatinine, albuminuria, blood pressure and body mass index, ascertainment of smoking status, and examination of the feet, to assess modifiable risk factors and facilitate the early identification of diabetic complications.
These annual diabetes reviews are associated with reduced emergency admissions, amputations, retinopathy, and mortality.
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