Diabetes: Nurses
(asked on 5th April 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, the Government is taking to ensure that Diabetes Specialist Nurses (DSNs) have sufficient time to support patients with more complex needs and (b) what estimate he has made of the proportion of DSNs’ time taken up supporting such patients.
This question was answered on 12th April 2019
The information requested is not centrally held.
Transformation funding for inpatient diabetes specialist nurse teams will serve to increase capacity and time available to support patients with more complex needs.