Scaling Up for Diabetes with the NSF - Interview with Dr Sue Roberts, National Clinical Director for Diabetes March 4, 2008
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The Diabetes NSF and transformation of care services is crucial to addressing the escalating Diabetes epidemic thought to be affecting the lives of 2 million people in the UK and imposing a £3.5 billion a year cost on the health service, equivalent to 5% of the NHS budget
Dr Sue Roberts, National Clinical Director for Diabetes, reviews the key factors and changes required to manage the scale of the epidemic and to deliver better outcomes for people with diabetes. It considers:
- Impact of the transition from Acute to Primary Care setting for diabetes services
- Building capacity to screen and treat 750,000 hidden sufferers
- Revolutionising commissioning
- Scaling up patient education programmes to support self-care
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