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 />
Information for people living with diabetes<br />
Access to relevant and timely information is essential to support people with diabetes to<br />
manage their condition successfully. This Action Plan is committed to ensuring that this<br />
happens. Attention should be paid to the level of understanding of each person with<br />
diabetes, in particular whether they have adjusted to their diagnosis. Literacy and numeracy<br />
are especially important in self managing the technical aspects of monitoring and understanding<br />
the medicines used in diabetes. People with poor literacy levels generally have poorer<br />
health status and are 1.5 to 3 times more likely to experience poor health outcomes, as<br />
they have less knowledge of self management and health-promoting behaviours.<br />
We need to see a consistent approach to the development of high quality patient<br />
information across NHS Boards. This approach can involve partner organisations like<br />
Diabetes UK Scotland and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. Key priorities are:<br />
• making information available to patients and their families and carers in language they<br />
can understand;<br />
• the need to develop links with NHS Inform;<br />
• developing links with NHS Carer Information Strategies;<br />
• the development of the My Diabetes My Way website to become a key resource for<br />
people with diabetes; and<br />
• a particular focus on meeting the needs of those communities and individuals who<br />
have traditionally found it harder to engage with health services.<br />
Actions we will take:<br />
The Scottish Diabetes Group will support initiatives to improve self<br />
management:<br />
• SDG, will work with the diabetes MCNs, local patient representatives and<br />
relevant voluntary sector organisations to identify and promote appropriate self<br />
management tools for diabetes (responsibility: SDG/MCNs)<br />
• SDG, through its Diabetes Care Focus Group, will monitor and review provision<br />
of information for people living with diabetes, including local and national annual<br />
overviews<br />
• SDG, with NHS Health Scotland and other agencies, will improve the<br />
information available, for example on cardiovascular disease, on<br />
www.mydiabetesmyway.scot.nhs.uk, and increase use of the website by people<br />
with diabetes<br />
• SCI-DC will work to increase the availability of web-based access by people with<br />
diabetes to their own diabetes clinical data. Information should be available in<br />
formats to meet different educational and language needs, and in formats for<br />
those with sensory and other disabilities.<br />
Quality Healthcare Indicators: person-centred; effective; safe.<br />
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