Diabetes

(asked on 23rd February 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will introduce more specialised nursing staff for community hospitals to assist people with diabetes.


Answered by
Dan Poulter Portrait
Dan Poulter
This question was answered on 2nd March 2015

Through the Mandate, we have asked NHS England to deliver continued improvements in relation to the experience of care, including long-term conditions such as diabetes. Local healthcare organisations, with their knowledge of the people they serve, are best placed to plan and employ a workforce based on clinical need and sound evidence.

The Government recognises that diabetes specialist nurses have made a huge difference to the care and outcomes for many people with diabetes. We want to see the sorts of benefits these roles bring – improved quality of life, support with decision making, symptom management, emotional support – extended to as many people as possible. We are operating now in a time of increasing demands on the National Health Service, which is why we need to be thinking radically about the way services are structured to ensure that this sort of holistic, person-centred support is there for everyone. The Five Year Forward View, published in October 2014 by NHS England sets out some of the care models that they will be supporting in the coming years, which aim to do just this.

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