Diabetes: Leicestershire

(asked on 11th December 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps health authorities in Leicestershire have been able to take as a result of the Diabetes Transformation Fund.


Answered by
Steve Brine Portrait
Steve Brine
This question was answered on 19th December 2017

A number of actions are underway across the Sustainability and Transformation Partnership area. These include:

- Employment of additional Diabetes Inpatient Specialist Nurses (DISN) by University Hospitals of Leicester National Health Service Trust, enabling the Trust to provide a seven day DISN service;

- Support from Effective Diabetes Education Now to support and train health care professionals offering diabetes care to patients; and

- Recruitment of additional nurses to support practices with poorer diabetes outcomes for patients.

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