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Liraglutide is an injectable blood glucose lowering therapy for the treatment of type 2 diabetes. It is a once-daily analogue of human glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) and is the second GLP-1 [...]

Considerable ill health in relation to diabetes could be reduced by effective measures to involve people with the condition in their own care. Structured education and care planning are key [...]

The usefulness of self-monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG) in people with type 2 diabetes has been hotly debated recently. This article is the outcome from a recently held roundtable meeting. [...]

In 2003 the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE; formerly the National Institute for Clinical Excellence) published guidance on patient education models for diabetes through Technology Appraisal 60 [...]

The publication of the National Service Framework for diabetes and new General Medical Services contract have caused a major overhaul in diabetes management in primary care. In this article, Gwen [...]

Introduction This article reflects on the increasing claims on the time of primary care teams to meet diabetes targets and comply with national guidance. New ways of working to provide [...]

KEY WORDS * Primary care * Conversion to insulin * Education * Patient-centred * Multidisciplary approach Introduction The prevalence of diabetes is increasing and, at the same time, a shift [...]

We live in an age where consumer choice is everything and when it comes to diabetes medication it is no different. People want to have a choice when it comes [...]

ARTICLE POINTS 1 The NSF for Diabetes advocates use of practice-based registers for systematic treatment regimens and advice. 2 Despite an increase in the number of patients on our register, [...]

I hope it has not escaped your notice, but we are to lose one of our human insulins. On 23 June, Novo Nordisk announced the market withdrawal of Mixtard® 30 [...]

The first ever edition of Diabetes & Primary Care was published in 1999. Some of us were lucky enough to be involved then, and still value our connection as the [...]

It is good to read in Rowan Hillson's editorial that 'most adverse effects of diabetes can be prevented or reduced by modern, evidence-based, systematic, integrated care'. She acknowledges the difficulties [...]

Do you know what a care bundle is? I didn't. The accompanying article describes care bundles as 'groups of high-impact, evidence-based healthcare interventions that are well-known in secondary but not [...]

Shortly before the GP Contract, I sat, as a practice nurse, in my ivory tower and gave my full attention to the people with diabetes who turned up at our [...]

We live in interesting times. The bad news is that the number of people diagnosed with type 2 diabetes is rising rapidly, exceeding expectations. The good news is that these [...]

Uncertainty exists around the terms 'care planning' and 'care plan', and there is a wide interpretation as to their use. In the twenty-plus years I have been nursing in primary [...]

Another year over and a new one just begun... and PCDS continues to grow, with our members now numbering over 4500. Another hugely successful conference was held in November entitled, [...]

Integrated care, as described by the Department of Health (DH), is when both health and social care services work together to ensure individuals get the right treatment and care that [...]

This guideline replaces earlier publications on management of blood glucose, blood pressure, lipids, renal disease and retinopathy. It also replaces technology appraisals on long-acting insulin analogues (however, surprisingly omitting insulin [...]

Delivery of diabetes care is changing ... and so it should. The numbers of people with diabetes, particularly type 2, are increasing in epidemic proportions. We need new ways of [...]

The National Service Framework for Diabetes: Delivery Strategy (Department of Health [DoH], 2003b) exhorted us to provide people with diabetes with more information in the shape of personal diabetes records [...]

Did you attend the Primary Care Diabetes Society (PCDS) inaugural meeting in November? Until then I thought I was the only killjoy on 'structured education'. It emerged then that many [...]

Ever since blood glucose testing strips were invented, debate has raged. To test or not to test? How often? Blood or urine? The debate has been intensified recently, first of [...]

We keep hearing about this new GP contract. Now, call me old fashioned, but I thought diabetes care was a team event and nurses had ceased to be doctors' handmaidens. [...]

The good thing is that the Government wants our response. So let's give it to them! Leaving aside the rhetoric of the printed document, the most interesting bits are those [...]