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Type 2 diabetes patients are being disadvantaged by having their test strips limited Zoe Smeaton PCTs have been imposing rules that breach guidance on patient care to cut costs, Numark [...]

Diabetes UK is calling on health professionals to improve their knowledge after an 8 per cent hike in diabetes diagnoses in under-18s following emergency admission last year. The charity called [...]

Many patients with diabetes are not achieving the target glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c) levels, the National Diabetes Audit has warned. Analysis of over 650,000 records from patients with diabetes in primary [...]

Diabetes * More than 4 per cent of men are diagnosed with diabetes * Men are 1.5 times more likely to get diabetes than women * 3 per cent of [...]

When Daniel Sillers entered a pharmacy in search of some lozenges to cure his dry mouth he didn't envisage his visit would lead to him being rushed to hospital with [...]

Sarah Thackray When Nicola Moxey went to her GP complaining of tiredness five years ago, it was such a non-specific symptom that he wasn't able to find anything wrong. By [...]

Multiples Company keen on more enhanced services after hitting diabetes milestone Having carried out one million diabetes screening tests since 2003, Lloydspharmacy is now looking at how patients can be [...]

People with diabetes are not getting enough information about their condition. This is according to a coalition that includes members of parliament, Diabetes UK and Ask About Medicines that met [...]

Bayer Healthcare has announced a new annual Ascensia Dream Fund Award to help people with diabetes in the UK and Ireland make their dreams come true. The award originated in [...]

Practice Trial offers diabetes and hypertension tests linked with lifestyle advice Jane Ellis A Greater Manchester pharmacy has started checking patients for diabetes and hypertension and is giving lifestyle advice [...]

Lloydspharmacy is trialling two extensions to its diabetes management service: HbA1c monitoring, enabling pharmacists to identify long-term blood glucose control, and a results text service, to aid patients' self-care. To [...]

Nearly 100 people took advantage of the free diabetes tests on offer at the Diabetes UK roadshow in Ealing, London this month. The event, which took place on a Diabetes [...]

Lloydspharmacy's TV advert for diabetes screening has prompted a 500 per cent increase in tests conducted. Over 92,000 diabetes tests were carried out during the five-week campaign, with over 3,500 [...]

The perennial issue of seven-day prescriptions and domiciliary monitored dosage systems rose to the surface once again, now linked to the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) assessment requirements. An excellent meeting [...]

Providing diabetes services through community pharmacies improves medication compliance and self-management, a year-long project has found. The Community Pharmacy Diabetes Health Improvement Programme in Hillingdon found that patients' anxieties about [...]

Dave Johnson, senior marketing manager for diabetes care at Roche Diagnostics, outlines how you can get involved in diabetes care To date, pharmacists have not been strongly part of the [...]

Ten pharmacies in Mid-Ulster are involved in a scheme to identify the 1,300 people estimated to be living in the area with undiagnosed diabetes. Launched last month, the early screening [...]

Lloydspharmacy has screened 500,000 customers for type 2 diabetes to help the NHS find the 'missing million' since the testing service began in June 2003. Of those tested, 25,000 were [...]

Lloydspharmacy's free diabetes screening service, developed to help identify the missing million diabetes sufferers in the UK, has won the Raising Awareness Award from charity Diabetes UK. Sir Michael Hirst, [...]

It's not every day you get a Scottish parliamentarian to visit your pharmacy and it's certainly a rarity when you end up diagnosing him with diabetes. That's what happened to [...]

The National Institute for Clinical Excellence has recommended that structured patient education is made available for people when they are first diagnosed with diabetes and then as required based on [...]

Insulin dependent diabetes mellitus shows the following common symptoms: polyuria, hyperglycemia, polydipsia, blurred vision, weight loss, dizziness and weakness. Diagnosis can be made simply by determining blood glucose levels. Complications include foot, eye and urinary problems, nerve damage and cardia disease.