How to use this site
Overall structure
Each area of this website on diabetes care offers:
- Information on key issues and current topics.
- Resource sections which bring together policy, guidelines and guidance, organisations and initiatives specific to that area.
Specific topics and features
You can use sections near the beginning of the website to find general information on diabetes as a condition:
What diabetes is, different types of diabetes and risk factors.
Insulin and oral agents and lifestyle issues. (How lifestyle impacts on diabetes and how diabetes impacts on lifestyle).
Risk factors for complications and different complications that can occur.
The Good practice area helps you to look at diabetes care from more specific perspectives:
Focuses on diabetes care:
- for a particular population or in a particular context such as black and minority ethnic (BME) groups, people with learning disabilities, prison population
- for a specific aspect of the condition such as retinopathy,foot care, sexual health
- with examples and case studies to demonstrate how guidance and evidence have been incorporated into care.
You can also focus on the perspective of the person with diabetes:
Stories which demonstrate how individuals have experienced diabetes and aspects of care and dealt with challenges that having diabetes has posed.
Looks at different kinds of involvement, involving service users in the development and monitoring of local services as well as the involvement of individuals in the management of their diabetes.
You can use the website for continuing professional development adding to your knowledge of diabetes:
In particular this area points you to other learning and networking resources, and further learning opportunities will be developed.
Comment on the diabetes website using the feedback form.