Diabetes-related lower limb amputations up by 18%
Diabetes-related lower limb amputations have increased by 18.3% after 27,465 operations were carried out in England between 2015 and 2018. According to Diabetes UK, there has been a significant ...
Diabetes-related lower limb amputations have increased by 18.3% after 27,465 operations were carried out in England between 2015 and 2018. According to Diabetes UK, there has been a significant ...
A group of diabetes specialists say clearer signposting is urgently needed to speed up rapid access to multidisciplinary footcare teams to reduce preventable amputations. The Insights for ...
A new Footcare Pathway to improve services for adults living with diabetes has been released in Northern Ireland. Published by the Diabetes Network for Northern Ireland, the pathway enables all ...
A “paradigm shift” from stratified healthcare to personalised medicine must be adopted to overcome barriers to diabetic foot disease, researchers have said. A Dutch study has looked ...
Evidence‐based guidelines on the prevention and management of diabetic foot disease have been published. The International Working Group on the Diabetic Foot (IWGDF) has been producing ...
The importance of foot care has been a hot topic across University Hospitals of Leicester (UHL) as staff been taking part in the first Diabetes Foot Awareness Week. The foot multidisciplinary ...
Best practice will be the focus of a free healthcare professional footcare conference which registration has now opened for. The London Diabetes Clinical Network Footcare Steering Group has said ...
The rise in major amputations among people with diabetes is “concerning” and more needs to be done to prevent this “life-changing” complications, according to a leading podiatrist. Graham Bowen ...
A Foot and Wound Clinic programme which forms part of the UK’s biggest national free-to-attend, CPD-accredited conference is now available online. The clinic, will once again be run in ...
A new surgical approach has been developed to address the threat of arterial disease which now equals diabetes as a leading cause of foot and leg amputations. Podiatric surgeons and vascular ...