The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 277 No 7426 p566
11 November 2006

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Diabetes commissioning toolkit published

A toolkit to help NHS commissioners — at both a primary care trust and practice level — commission diabetes services has been published by the Department of Health.

The toolkit includes advice on how to carry out a health needs assessment for the local diabetes population, a generic specification for diabetes care, indicators that commissioners can use to monitor the quality of current local services and key outcomes that a commissioner could specify when commissioning diabetes care.

A spokesman for the DoH said: “NHS commissioners need to adopt a strategic approach to commissioning diabetes care in order to improve quality and ensure best use of the available resources.”

The guidance is available from the DoH website