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Diabetes today: missed opportunities, unacceptable variations in care and ‘indescribable tragedy’
Author(s) -
Greener Mark
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
practical diabetes
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.205
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 2047-2900
pISSN - 2047-2897
DOI - 10.1002/pdi.1927
Subject(s) - medicine , life expectancy , diabetes mellitus , tragedy (event) , population , audit , disease , pediatrics , gerontology , family medicine , intensive care medicine , environmental health , psychiatry , endocrinology , management , economics
Diabetes UK’s new report ‘State of the Nation: Challenges for 2015 and Beyond’ highlights that, while progress has been made in the last few years, there is no room for complacency. There still seem to be marked variations in care, missed opportunities and the tragedy of avoidable diabetes. Here, Mark Greener reports on the implications of Diabetes UK’s findings, relevant NHS strategies, and current opinion on the way in which care might be improved.