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:
Diagnosis
What diabetes is, different types of diabetes and risk factors.
Treatment and lifestyle
Insulin and oral agents and lifestyle issues. (How lifestyle impacts on diabetes and how diabetes impacts on lifestyle.)
Complications
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:
Good practice
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 which show diabetes care in action.
You can also focus on the perspective of the person with diabetes:
Patient voices
Stories which demonstrate how individuals have experienced diabetes and aspects of care and dealt with challenges that having diabetes has posed.
Patient involvement
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:
Skills development
In particular this area provides guidance and learning on further sources of information for diabetes care and points you to other professional development, learning and networking resources
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