DIABETES ACTION PLAN 2010
Diabetes Action Plan 2010 - Scottish Government
Diabetes Action Plan 2010 - Scottish Government
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<strong>DIABETES</strong> <strong>ACTION</strong> <strong>PLAN</strong> <strong>2010</strong><br />
QUALITY CARE FOR <strong>DIABETES</strong> IN SCOTLAND<br />
1. INTRODUCTION<br />
This Action Plan is a continuation of the range of work set out in the Scottish Diabetes<br />
Action Plan published in 2006. The importance of continuity of effort was one of the main<br />
messages to emerge from the consultation process undertaken between June and August<br />
2009. The Better Diabetes Care consultation document (www.scotland.gov.uk/diabetes)<br />
was widely distributed and made available online. The Scottish Diabetes Group (SDG),<br />
also provided funding to Diabetes UK Scotland to drive the consultation process through<br />
a national survey of people living with diabetes and a series of local and national events.<br />
Over 85 organisations and many individuals responded to the consultation with a range of<br />
thoughtful and valuable views. All responses were analysed and collated by the most<br />
relevant sub group of the SDG. All sub groups are multidisciplinary and include<br />
representation by people living with diabetes. In addition the SDG had access to and<br />
advice from reports produced by the Scottish Public Health Network (www.scotphn.net),<br />
the diabetes Managed Clinical Networks (www.diabetesinscotland.org.uk), the SIGN<br />
Guideline development group (www.sign.ac.uk/guidelines/fulltext/116/index.html) and the<br />
Type 1 Diabetes Short Life Working Group. Grateful thanks are due to the individuals and<br />
organisations who contributed over the last few months. They are listed in Appendix 1.<br />
The organisational and individual responses are available on the Scottish Government<br />
website (www.scotland.gov.uk) and provide the basis for this Action Plan.<br />
In this Action Plan, we have suggested the use of the expression ‘the diabetes community’<br />
as a convenient way of indicating the interests uniting people living with diabetes,<br />
healthcare professionals and voluntary sector organisations. When the word ‘we’ is used<br />
later in the Action Plan, it should be understood as meaning ‘the diabetes community’.<br />
Implementation of this Action Plan depends on continued collaboration between all<br />
groups within the diabetes community and interactions with other national and<br />
international organisations.<br />
Background<br />
Diabetes mellitus, recognised by a raised blood glucose level, is the most common<br />
disorder of metabolism. Over 228,000 people, or one in twenty-five of the Scottish<br />
population, have been diagnosed with the condition, and an estimated 20,000 remain<br />
undiagnosed (www.scotpho.org.uk).<br />
There are two main types of diabetes. About 13%, or over 27,000 people in Scotland,<br />
have type 1 diabetes. This develops when there is a severe lack of insulin in the body<br />
because most or all of the cells in the pancreas that produce insulin have been destroyed.<br />
People with type 1 diabetes therefore need to inject insulin from the time of diagnosis.<br />
Type 1 diabetes is one of the commonest long term conditions affecting children and<br />
adolescents in Scotland, which has one of the highest prevalence rates of type 1 diabetes<br />
in Europe.<br />
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