Diabetes in the NHS: Commissioning and providing specialist services

Diabetes has come a long way since the publication of the National Service Framework (NSF). Self management is now recognised as the key to improved health outcomes, but people with diabetes also need the active support of organised, proactive and expert health, community and social services.

This small booklet aims to address this issue by providing details of the improved pathways that can be designed for people with diabetes, the governance issues that can be addressed by PCTs and the money the can be saved by acute trusts and commissioners, if the expertise of consultant diabetologists and the teams they work with is used to the full.

(Published September 2007, 26 pages)