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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Neuropathy 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
Diabetic neuropathy is where constant high blood suger levels over a long period of time cause long-term damage to the nerve fibres. It is common in diabetes. It includes many manifestations ranging from loss of hypoglycaemic warning signs, difficulty in controlling blood pressure, erectile dysfunction and gastroparesis to foot problems, bladder emptying and bowel problems and depression.
How is NHS Diabetes supporting you?
- A commissioning guide (PDF 2.3MB) for diabetes and neuropathy has been published by NHS Diabetes. 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.
- An educational factsheet about diabetes and erectile dysfunction (PDF 798KB) has been published by NHS Diabetes aimed at healthcare professionals to provide advice and information about the condition and its consequences.
