Inpatient diabetes service survey launched
Hospital teams are invited to fill in a survey on which healthcare professionals are needed to deliver good inpatient diabetes care.
Launched by the Joint British Diabetes Societies for Inpatient Care (JBDS-IP), the survey aims to outline the right number of staff needed to deliver an ideal, state of the art inpatient diabetes service in the UK.
Dr Umesh Dashora, Diabetes Consultant, said: “All over the country diabetes teams are trying to do the best for people with diabetes admitted in hospitals for various reasons.
“It will help us all if we have a clear understanding of how many different health care professionals (consultants, diabetes specialist nurses, health care assistants, dieticians, podiatrists, diabetes pharmacists, physician assistants, physician associates) in various combinations we need to deliver an ideal inpatient diabetes service for the 21st century.”
He added: “We recognise that it may be aspirational rather than practically possible, but we have to have sight of the goal to make our baby steps in that direction.
“Please try the excel sheet by putting the numbers (time taken to review average patient, average number of patients, time for admin, etc) to calculate your own staffing requirement and let us know if we need to change those numbers for more accurate result.”
The JBDS-IP has stated: “We want to try and determine what are the optimal staffing levels for everyone involved in the team. We also want to include everything the team does, or should be doing, not just delivering care.
“This means ideal staffing for admin support, teaching, professional development and service development, as well as preadmission and post admission activities – anything that you think is important to include in what you and your team does.”
The deadline to complete this survey is Wednesday, November 30.
For more information on how to apply, click here.
To download an inpatient staffing calculator, click here.
To see an example, click here.