NATIONAL DIABETES AWARENESS WEEK. National Diabetes Awareness Week Diabetes places a major burden upon patients, their families and the health service. …
3rd June 2003
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NATIONAL DIABETES AWARENESS WEEK
National Diabetes Awareness Week runs from Monday 9th to Friday 13th June
2003 Diabetes places a major burden upon patients, their families and
the health service These are illustrated below:
|Impact of diabetes on diabetics |
|life expectancy |reduced, on verage, more than 20 years in|
| |type 1 and up to ten years in type 2 |
| |diabetes1 |
|coronary heart disease |up to five times higher than average |
|mortality | |
|risk of stroke |up to three times higher than average |
|renal failure |the leading cause more than one in six |
| |people starting renal replacement |
| |therapy |
|lower limb amputation |second commonest cause
the leading cause|
| |is accident |
|Blindness in people of working |the leading cause |
|age | |
|Pregnancy |an increased risk of the baby: |
| |being lost during pregnancy/birth |
| |having a congenital malformation |
| |dying in infancy |
|1Type 1 diabetes:a total lack of insulin;type 2 diabetes:the body does |
|not produce enough insulin or cells ignore it |
|Impact of diabetes on health and social services |
|NHS resources |around 5of spend |
|hospital inpatient resources |up to 10of spend |
|hospital admission |diabetics twice as likely to be admitted |
| |to hospital as |
| |the general population |
|stay in hospital |diabetics
stay in hospital up to twice |
| |the average length |
|diabetic complications - NHS |increased by more than five-fold |
|costs | |
|social services costs |5of diabetics incur social services |
| |costs average |
| |annual costs:2,450 in 1999 |
|diabetic complications -social |increased four-fold |
|services costs | |
Source:National Service Framework for diabetes:tandardsDecember 2001
Trust Medical Director and Consultant Endocrinologist/Diabetologist, Dr
Mike Baxter, commented: At Ashford St Peters Hospitals our diabetes
service cares for hundreds of patients every year but we know that there is
much more that we could be doing It is generally accepted that the
prevalence of diabetes is increasing Statistics suggest that between 1995
and 2010 the prevalence of diabetes will rise from 100 million to 200-300
million people
The National
Service Framework for Diabetes, published in December 2001,
sets out how services will be organised in the future with the creation of
clinically-led managed diabetes networks Networks will cover a population
served by a specialist diabetes service based in an NHS Trust
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