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.
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.