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Pharmaceutical Journal 2006;276:619 (27 May
2006)
Diabetic foot
The “Diabetic foot guide”, covering key areas necessary to develop
an effective diabetic foot care service, is now available from the NHS Diabetes
Support Team. It can be downloaded from the Department of Health website
17 June 2005
A joint report by the Department of Health and Diabetes UK has been published
this week to provide guidance on equipping patients with the knowledge they
need to manage diabetes effectively
21 May 2005
Diabetes UK has reprinted the credit card-sized “Know
your numbers”
leaflet
14 May 2005
Diabetes funding
The Strategic Alliance for Diabetes (Diabetes UK, GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer
and Sanofi-Aventis) has launched a website providing health care professionals
in England with advice on how to commission diabetes services at a primary
care level. The website includes information on the NHS commissioning process,
how to make a funding bid, potential funding sources and examples of good
practice. It can be accessed at www.diabetesplanning.org
16 April 2005
Royal Pharmaceutical Society
“Practice guidance on the care of people with diabetes” PDF (630K)
Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee
“National framework for diabetes — a guide for community pharmacists” PDF (340K)
2 December 2004
Roche Diagnostics has launched a
range of educational advice leaflets written by diabetes specialist
nurses. They are available at www.accu-chek.co.uk
Further details
on 0800 701000
13 November 2004
Irene Gummerson, a pharmacist with a special interest in diabetes, reports from
a conference on new treatments and trends in diabetes care more
14 October 2004
Servier Laboratories has launched “Focus on fasting and feasting”,
a booklet to help health care professionals guide patients with type 2
diabetes through periods of fasting and feasting such as Ramadan and Diwali more
30 September 2004
Diabetes UK has launched an internet database for health care professionals listing
360 resources relating to diabetes care and healthy living, in 32 languages
more
Bayer Healthcare and GlaxoSmithKline have launched a resource pack to help health
care professionals feel more comfortable with discussing erectile dysfunction with
patients with diabetes more
8 July 2004
Diabetes UK has redesigned two of its leaflets: “Eating well with diabetes”and “Keeping
active” (formerly called “Keeping fit”). The new leaflets
can be obtained free of charge on 0800 585 088.
1 April 2004
The Diabetes Monitoring Forum has launched a series of leaflets to offer people with diabetes more specific advice on blood glucose monitoring, depending on the medicine the patient is taking more
11 December 2003
Diabetes UK has produced a pocket-sized information leaflet,
supported by Aventis, with spaces for patients with diabetes
to record measurements of HbA1c, blood pressure,
blood lipids, waist circumference and body mass index.
Copies of the card have been sent to Diabetes UK members
and to
doctors’ surgeries. Further copies are available
from Amanda Vezey on 020 7424 1104 (e-mail amanda.vezey@diabetes.org.uk).
Diabetes
UK
10 Parkway
London NW1 7AA
website www.diabetesuk.co.uk
Insulin therapy by continuous subcutaneous infusion
PDF (65K)
This (continuing professional development) article discusses an established delivery
option for insulin therapy:
continuous
subcutaneous insulin infusion pumps
A continuing professional development series on diabetes
Living with diabetes: community pharmacists have an important role to play more
Pharmacists, who are also patients, describe in their own words what it is like to have to take a medicine
for life
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