This information is not centrally collected. Responsibility for implementing the diabetes national service framework rests with the national health service, and it is for primary care trusts to commission services that meet the needs of their local population.
The national health service (NHS) next stage review, ‘High Quality Care for All’, published on 30 June 2008, announced the introduction of the Reduce Your Risk campaign, which will raise awareness of the vascular checks programme and vascular conditions generally, including diabetes. Copies of this publication have already been placed in the Library.
In addition to this, The Change4Life campaign is a forthcoming £75 million social marketing programme that is part of “Healthy Weight, Healthy Lives: A Cross Government Strategy for England” (copies of which have already been placed in the Library). The campaign will support and encourage people to live healthily by helping them to make significant and sustained choices to behaviours around diet and physical activity. This will also help prevent obesity and reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes and other cardiovascular diseases.
Through the Section 64 general grant scheme (now known as Third Sector Investment programme), we have given a total of £305,976 in support of three projects that include raising awareness of type 2 diabetes since 2005.
The Department, in collaboration with Diabetes UK, has established a joint working group to identify what needs to be done to enable the national health service and local care services to meet the psychological and emotional needs of all people with diabetes to support them to self-care. This will include examining the competencies required to deliver an appropriate service. The group is part of a wider workstream looking at ways that local services can develop support for people with diabetes to self-manage, including care planning, structured education and self-monitoring.
(2) how many people have been admitted to hospital in diabetes-related emergencies in the last 12 months.
Information on the estimated percentage of hospital beds occupied by patients with diabetes in each primary care trust is not available in the format requested. The recent report ‘Improving Emergency and Inpatient Care for People with Diabetes’ estimates that around 10 per cent. of all hospital beds in the United Kingdom are occupied by people with diabetes.
The following table shows the number of people admitted to hospital in diabetes-related emergencies in 2006-07, the latest year for which figures are available:
Total emergency admissions 2006-07 143,822 1 Finished admissions episodes (FAE): a FAE is the first period of inpatient care under one consultant within one health care provider. FAEs are counted against the year in which the admission episode finishes. Admissions do not represent the number of inpatients, as a person may have more than one admission within the year.
(2) how many diabetes patients (a) are receiving, (b) have received and (c) have not received structured education for diabetes through DAFNE programmes in each primary care trust.
This information is not available in the format requested. The DAFNE centre reports, to date, that 8,698 people in England have become DAFNE graduates. The following table breaks this down by centre.
Centre Number of patients graduated Addenbrooke’s 656 Arrowe Park 84 Barking and Dagenham 24 Basildon 5 Bedford 128 Birmingham East and North 41 Blackburn 126 Bolton 46 Bridlington 99 Burnley 53 Central Middlesex 261 Chelsea and Westminster 61 Croydon 24 Dartford 61 Derby 311 Durham 63 Exeter 105 Harrogate 48 Heart of Birmingham 125 Hinchingbrooke 60 Hull 260 Ipswich 60 Kings 703 Leicester 625 Lewisham 52 Maidstone 37 Medway 98 North Lincolnshire and Goole 164 Northampton 474 Northumbria 614 Norwich 114 Nottingham 452 Pembury 64 Pennine 96 Queen Elizabeth, London 33 Queen Mary, Kent 44 Redbridge 12 Rotherham 46 Royal Surrey County Hospital 6 Salford 116 Salisbury 80 Scarborough 190 South East Kent 54 Selly Oak 88 Sheffield 713 South of Tees 112 Southend 60 St. George’s, Hornchurch 73 St. George’s, Tooting 146 St. Thomas 157 Tameside 46 Taunton and Somerset 86 UCLH 94 Wakefield 16 West Cumberland 106 West Essex 112 Wythenshawe 109 Bournemouth 5
The DESMOND central office reports that the programme has been delivered to over 20,000 people in the United Kingdom and Ireland. A figure for England is not available.