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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Prevention and risk management policy, standards and guidance resources
NHS Diabetes
NICE Guidance
- PH35: Preventing type 2 diabetes - population and
community interventions: guidance (PDF 697KB)
- Obesity (Dec 2006, updated Jan 2010). NICE
clinical guideline 43.
- Behaviour change at population, community and
individual levels (Oct 2007) NICE public health guidance 6.
- Four commonly used methods to increase physical activity: brief interventions in primary care, exercise referral schemes, pedometers and community-based exercise programmes for walking and cycling (Mar 2006) NICE public health guidance 2.
- Promoting physical activity, active play and
sport for pre-school and school age children and young people in family,
pre-school, school and community settings (Jan 2009). NICE public health
guidance 17.
- Workplace health promotion: how to encourage
employees to be physically active (May 2008). NICE public health guidance 13.
IMAGE Project
- IMAGE Project (Development and Implementation of
a European Guideline and Trading Standards for Diabetes Prevention)
Diabetes UK
Useful links
Articles
- Alberti KGMM, Zimmet P and Shaw J. International Diabetes Federation: a consensus on Type 2 diabetes prevention Diabetic Medicine 2007; 24:451-463.



