Diabetes care areas - click here to navigate to care area page
- Cardiovascular care
- Children and young people
- Diagnosis and continuing care
- Education
- Emotional and psychological support
- End of life
- Equality in diabetes
- Prevention and risk management
- Eye services
- Footcare
- Emergency and inpatient
- Kidney care
- Mental health and learning difficulties
- Neuropathy care
- Pregnancy
- Services for older people
- User involvement
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Diagnosis and continuing care - user involvement
Involving people with diabetes is an integral part of designing, commissioning and delivering a diabetes service. Moreover, people with diabetes are an important resource in delivering best outcomes and need to be properly informed and educated in order to be active participants in the management of their condition.
NHS diabetes has been working in partnership with Diabetes UK to identify the best ways of ensuring that people with diabetes are involved in service redesign and improvement. The resource that has been developed form this work can be found at www.diabetes.org.uk/MakingInvolvementHappen
For more information see our page on user involvement
In addition to this, the NICE Quality Standard for adults with diabetes quality statement number one highlights the importance of education for people with diabetes at diagnosis and at appropriate times to fit in with their identified needs.
In order to achieve best outcomes, education programmes should meet NICE Technology appraisal guidance, and should be commissioned in an appropriate way. Guidance on commissioning a patient education programme for people with type 2 diabetes is available on the NICE website.
NHS diabetes commissioning guides identify where this fits within the commissioning of a whole diabetes service.
Other documents you may find useful
NHS Diabetes Knowledge and Information guide on Structured Patient Education - KIR: Structured Education in Diabetes, January 2011 (PDF 424KB)
Structured Patient Education in Diabetes – Department of Health 2005
http://www.xperthealth.org.uk/images/stories/downloads/Structured_Report.pdf
DESMOND - DESMOND an NHS organisation which supports other NHS organisations to deliver first class patient education to people with Type 2 diabetes, or who are at risk of diabetes. http://www.desmond-project.org.uk/
X-PERT – A six week group education Programme for people with diabetes helping them to learn to self-manage their condition and reduce the need for medication. http://www.xperthealth.org.uk/
DAFNE – A way of managing Type 1 diabetes providing people with the skills necessary to estimate the carbohydrate in each meal and to inject the right dose of insulin. http://www.dafne.uk.com/
NICE Quality Standards - http://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/qualitystandards/diabetesinadults/diabetesinadultsqualitystandard.jsp
For more information see our page on Patient Education (link)
