diabetes

World Diabetes Day takes place every year on 14 November to raise awareness of the condition, which has physical, psychological and behavioural implications for individuals. Read our resources covering assessment, management and care of patients with diabetes.


Diabetes education should include information about foot self-care

Caring for the feet is just as important for patients who have diabetes new research finds.

Cut exposure to synthetic chemicals to ward off diabetes

Cutting exposure to common environmental synthetic chemicals by 25% could ward off more than...

Diabetes-related foot amputations: a preventable disaster

Better training of non-specialists and improved foot care in all settings could turn back...

Self-management of diabetes

A CPD article improved Linda Miller’s knowledge of improving self-management of type 1 and...

Book review: ABC of Diabetes (7th edition)

Neesha Oozageer Gunowa reviews ABC of Diabetes.

Is the government strategy on obesity a lost opportunity?

If obesity among children in the UK is not tackled soon, cancer and diabetes rates will soar...

Management of type 1 diabetes in children is boosted by robots

Children happy to interact with humanoid robots

Web reviews

Online resources of interest to primary healthcare professionals

Community nursing cuts hampering diabetes care as prescription bill hits £1 billion a...

Nursing leaders warned cuts to community nursing are damaging diabetes care as the drug bill...

Patients monitoring diabetes at home 'cope better than those seen only by GP'...

Service where patients send blood glucose, blood pressure and weight measurements to nurses...

An overview of diabetes

Healthcare staff should develop an understanding of type 1 and type 2 diabetes

Nursing professors' YouTube video highlights the psychological effect of diabetes...

Research can help patients cope with the disease, say nursing academics

NHS should carry out more gastric band surgery to help fight obesity and diabetes

The NHS has been urged to increase the numbers of patients receiving weight loss surgery to...

Scientists discover the factor which puts type 2 diabetes into remission following...

A gut hormone has been found to restore normal blood glucose levels in people with type 2...

Type 1 diabetes could be a risk factor for development of epilepsy in children

Young people with type 1 diabetes have three times the risk of developing epilepsy later in...

New healthcare checklist for type 1 and type 2 diabetes patients

Diabetes patients should be be proactive about their health care

How young people can learn about newly diagnosed type 1 diabetes

This article describes a small-scale study of children’s experiences of using a tablet...

Global number of adults with diabetes has quadrupled

A study in the Lancet has found the number of people with diabetes worldwide has increased...

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