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• 1. Diabetes: National service framework and key documents

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  There are an estimated 2.35m people with diabetes in England and this is predicted to grow to more than 2.5m by 2010. The diabetes NSF is a concerted effort to make sure these people, wherever they live, receive the same excellent standard of care.

  7 May 2009

  Diabetes section

• 2. Diabetic Retinopathy Screening Statement

  Data from Local Delivery Plan Returns shows that by December 2007 85.7 percent of people diagnosed with diabetes were offered screening for diabetic retinopathy that met stringent national clinical standards of quality and safety in the previous twelve months

  3 April 2008

  Publications section

• 3. Prediction of Diabetic Patients at Risk of Foot Ulceration

  Completed: December 1996 Total cost: £52,248

  12 September 2002

  A - Z section

• 4. Ambulance personnel recruitment policy and diabetes

  This letter outlines changes in legislation which means that persons with good diabetic control and with no significant complications are now to be allowed to apply for a C1 license (subject to medical assessment) which will enable them to drive ambulances.

  14 February 2003

  Dear colleague letters section

• 5. Second report of the UK National Screening Committee

  The National Screening Committee (NSC) is tasked with advising Government on the merits of screening for particular diseases and health problems. This document provides a progress report on the Committee's work between 1998 and 2000. It describes the criteria used by the NSC to determine whether screening programmes are appropriate and their work on developing screening protocols and standards. It describes how screening is organised in the UK and sets out the NSC's forward programme. The Committee is particularly keen to ensure that screening participants are well informed about the limitations of screening and do not equate screening with curing. The report outlines progress on pilot screening projects for chlamydia and bowel/colorectal cancer. In the final section of the report the Committee sets out its recommendations for eight common conditions: aortic aneurysms, diabetic retinopathy, vascular disease, osteoporosis, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, ovarian cancer, prostate cancer and syphilis. Appendices detail the NSC's appraisal criteria, their terms of reference and membership. Cites 12 references.

  1 January 2000

  Publications section

• 6. Turning the corner: improving diabetes care

  The Diabetes National Service Framework set out the first ever set of national standards for the treatment of diabetes to raise the quality of NHS services and reduce unacceptable variations between them. This report highlights progress over the first three years following the publication of the NSF Delivery Strategy.

  13 June 2006

  Publications section

• 7. Dr Rowan Hillson MBE, National Clinical Director for Diabetes

  Dr Rowan Hillson MBE, National Clinical Director for Diabetes

  30 May 2008

  National clinical directors section

• 8. National service framework for diabetes delivery strategy

  Letter from the Office of the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, David Lammy, dated 9 January 2003, and Co-chairs: Diabetes NSF Implementation Group, Professor Mike Pringle and Sheila Adam. No electronic downloadable version of this document is available.

  9 January 2003

  Dear colleague letters section

• 9. Working together for better diabetes care

  The national director for diabetes sets out how services are changing to meet the needs of patients, and how they need to change in the future. Clinicians in primary and secondary care need to work together and work in partnership with patients to improve care for people with diabetes.

  16 May 2007

  Publications section

• 10. Diabetes commissioning toolkit

  The diabetes commissioning toolkit provides advice for all commissioners of diabetes services. It describes how to carry out a health needs assessment for a local diabetes population and provides a generic specification for diabetes care, signposting recognised quality markers and suggesting key outcomes for the service.

  3 November 2006

  Publications section

• 11. NSF Diabetes - Foot Protection Programme

  Foot Protection Programme for the West Norfolk PCT area.

  30 December 2003

  Diabetes section

• 12. St Vincent joint task force for diabetes the report

  Department of Health publication

  1 January 1998

  Publications section

• 13. Speech by Sir Nigel Crisp, Chief Executive, to the NHS Confederation Conference, 16 June 2005

  Let me start by paying tribute to Gill and Peter for everything you are doing at the Confederation. You are clearly going from strength to strength. I am delighted, for example, with the way that NHS Employers has developed over the last year and pleased to see the establishment of the Foundation Trust Network.

  17 June 2005

  Speeches section

• 14. NSF Diabetes - Annual Reviews through a one-stop shop

  NSF Diabetes Annual Reviews for Elsie Bertram Diabetes Centre, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, Norwich

  30 December 2003

  Diabetes section

• 15. Pancreas transplants

  From 1 April 2004, pancreas transplants for the residents of England will be commissioned and funded by the Department of Health under the auspices of the National Specialist Commissioning Advisory Group (NSCAG). This letter also names the centres designated by NSCAG to perform pancreas transplants.

  1 January 2004

  Dear colleague letters section

• 16. Pancreas Transplants

  Pancreas Transplants

  26 February 2004

  Chief executive bulletin section

• 17. Diabetes retinopathy screening

  Information on meeting the national service framework (NSF) target.

  18 May 2005

  FOI releases section

• 18. PRIORITY AREAS: FIRST ROUND

  The term shared care is used to describe the joint provision of care, not necessarily in the same place or at the same time, by members of the primary care team and of a specialist team. Shared care schemes generally focus on diabetes, asthma and antenatal care, but several other conditions such as inflammatory bowel disease and hypertension might benefit from components of the shared care approach. Descriptive studies exist for shared care schemes, but there are few randomised controlled trials and few studies have employed outcome, rather than process, measures.

  27 November 2003

  A - Z section

• 19. PRIORITY AREAS: FIRST ROUND - 13

  Evaluation of Shared Schemes

  12 January 2004

  A - Z section

• 20. WE103: Cardiovascular risk factors in postmenopausal women: the effect of mode of delivery of hormone replacement

  Dr Mary Seed DM MRCP FRCPath

  31 December 2003

  A - Z section