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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Kidney care
This page is aimed at commissioners and providers of diabetes care. It brings together guidance, policy, commissioning guides, links to care pathways and examples of how services can be improved for people with diabetes.
The challenge
One of the significant complications of long-term diabetes is kidney damage. Although it only affects a minority of people with diabetes, it is a major cause of kidney failure, which may require dialysis or transplantation. Chronic kidney disease (CKD) prevalence is estimated at up to 14% of the adult population in England. Research suggests that the prevalence of CKD as a result of diabetes varies from 18% to over 30% in all people with diabetes.
How is NHS Diabetes supporting you?
Our sister organisation NHS Kidney Care works with clinical teams and commissioners of kidney care to transform the services available to those with kidney disease, in order to continually drive up the quality of care.
This work area provides links to NHS Kidney Care and also brings together supporting information for the commissioning and improvement of all diabetes related services, including renal. NHS Diabetes is working to improve diabetes and kidney care by:
- Providing guidance, data, case studies and tools for the overall care of the patient into which screening for kidney disease and treatment should be integrated.
- Produced a commissioning guide (PDF 295KB) for diabetes and kidney care. The guide includes an intervention map detailing all of the elements needed for the service as well as a contracting framework and service specification template. It supports our commissioning approach which offers a step-by-step guide in how to deliver high quality, efficient and cost effective diabetes services.
