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Care Planning in Diabetes: Report from the joint Department of Health and Diabetes UK Care Planning Working Group

Document type:

Publication
Author:

Joint Department of Health and Diabetes UK Care Planning Working Group
Published date:

4 December 2006
Primary audience:

Health and social care professionals
Product number:

278401
Gateway reference:

7276
Pages:

60
Copyright holder:

Crown

This report contains guidance on the care planning process for diabetes services, building on Standard 3 of the Diabetes National Service Framework (NSF). It explains the principles and processes of care planning, reviews the evidence base, and offers guidance on putting it into practice

Care planning can be defined as a process which offers people active involvement in deciding, agreeing and owning how their diabetes will be managed. It aims to help people with diabetes achieve optimum health through a partnership approach with health professionals in order to learn about diabetes, manage it and related conditions better and to cope with it in their daily lives. Care planning is one of the key interventions required to achieve Standard 3 of the Diabetes National Service Framework: empowering people with diabetes.

This report, from the joint Department of Health and Diabetes UK Care Planning Working Group, contains guidance on the care planning process for diabetes services.

Section 2 sets out the policy context in which care planning for people with diabetes has been developed.
Section 3 describes in detail the principles and processes of care planning and provides an example of what it might look like in action.
Section 4 outlines the evidence base for the model of care planning contained in this report.
Section 5 focuses on workforce issues, outlining the National Workforce Competences for Diabetes that are relevant to care planning and which could form the basis of skills development in this area.
Section 6 concentrates on putting care planning into practice. It lays out the key elements of a care planning process with some suggestions and examples of how it might be incorporated into diabetes services.
Section 7 deals with quality assurance of the care planning process.

The report aims to be a useful point of reference for all involved in the care planning process.

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