Does your diabetes care meet national standards and best practice?
How confident are your workforce in understanding diabetic footcare or spotting and treating a hypoglycaemic event? “Access to good quality diabetes education and training for care home staff” is one of the elements of good diabetes care as laid out by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). Diabetes affects around 25% of residents in care homes (residential and […]
World Diabetes Day – 14 November 2018
World Diabetes Day is a global campaign which was created in 1991 by the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) and the World Health Organisation and takes place on the 14th November every year (the birthday of Sir Frederick Banting, who co-discovered insulin along with Charles Best in 1922). The theme for this year and 2019 is […]