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New approach needed for inpatients with diabetes

The NHS must take immediate action to raise standards of care in hospitals for people with diabetes, according to the UK’s leading specialist in diabetes inpatient care.

Alison Bloomer and Eve Batt report back from the Diabetes UK Professional Conference 2015. Dr Gerry Rayman, Head of Service at the Diabetes Centre, Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust, lead for the National Diabetes Inpatient Audit and specialist medical advisor to Diabetes UK, has advised that a new approach is needed to tackle the often poor care that people with diabetes—who account for about one in six of all inpatients—receive in hospital and to address the almost 8-10% higher mortality rate among inpatients with diabetes. He said that too few hospitals have fully-staffed inpatient diabetes teams, and over 30% of hospitals

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