Self care is key to cutting the cost of minor ailments
18 Nov 2010 | by Stephen Robinson
GPs can help cut the £2 billion annual cost of minor ailments to the NHS by educating patients
NHS reforms risk fragmenting services and duplicating work by clinicians, Diabetes UK has warned...., with different aspects of diabetes care commissioned by a range of commissioners, could further fragment how ... to repeatedly provide the same information to different parts of the system. Diabetes UK set out its concerns ... with diabetes has access to the multidisciplinary skills of generalists, specialists, allied health and other ...
GPs can help cut the £2 billion annual cost of minor ailments to the NHS by educating patients
to former RCGP diabetes lead Dr Brian Karet. His comments came after figures from the National Diabetes ... /11. Diabetes patients should receive nine basic checks each year, including BP, HbA1c, urine albumin ...
are also having to rely on individual requests for other NICE-approved interventions, including diabetes education and insulin pump therapy. Stella Valerkou, senior policy officer at Diabetes UK, says it would ... treatments on cost alone. 'All people with diabetes must have equal access to effective treatments based ...
. Diabetes UK has already expressed similar concerns. It said GPs need to set up links with secondary care ...
programme is aiming for savings of 7.2 million by 2013. This will be achieved through unscheduled care ... refund total to 980,000. Redesigning patient pathways Pathways changed include diabetes ...
, who is chief executive of Diabetes UK, also called for the Health Bill to require commissioners ...
checks for patients with CHD, diabetes or stroke. In addition, negotiators accepted new indicators ...
As a cross-bench peer and head of a leading health charity, there is little she can do to escape it. 'It is the biggest Bill anybody has had through Parliament in many, many years,' she says. 'It is massive. It's like a bloody telephone book.' As chief executive of Diabetes UK, Baroness Young worries ...
. These organisations will be 'delivering a new type of service,' and competition will be introduced into primary care ...
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