“Strong suggestive evidence” indicates that appropriate changes in the relevant care pathways can result in a prompt improvement in clinical outcomes in diabetes footcare, an article ...
Newly introduced one-stop foot clinics in Lincolnshire are already seeing results just weeks after being set up to help prevent amputations in people with diabetes. The clinics are being run at ...
Commissioners and policy makers are ignoring guidance set out by the healthcare advisory body NICE, a report has stated. The College of Podiatry has published a document which has concluded that ...
Healthcare commissioners are being called upon to prioritise diabetic footcare following the release of an online commissioner’s guide. The College of Podiatry has launched the document ...
A series of videos to help people with diabetes and healthcare professionals increase their “knowledge and understanding” of the importance of good footcare have been released by NHS ...
More than a third of people in the UK are not aware that foot ulcers are a serious complication of diabetes, according to a recent survey. The Diabetes UK poll, which involved more than 2,000 ...
A new therapeutic approach has been developed which could help prevent diabetes-related amputations, it has been announced. A team from the University of Montreal Hospital Research Centre ...
A leading diabetes specialist nurse organisation has published advisory leaflets about footcare. TREND-UK has released Looking After your Feet with Diabetes in a bid to help drive down the number ...
A new suite of free e-learning modules for healthcare professionals working in diabetes care has been launched by The Diabetes Times. The first module, which has been unveiled, is about diabetic ...
A diabetes footcare initiative in Exeter has won a top NHS award for lowering amputation rates below the national average. The Integrated Diabetic Footcare Faculty (IDFF), which was set up in ...