The National Advisory Panel for Care Home Diabetes (NAPCHD), chaired by Professor Alan Sinclair, was formed in mid-2020 to bring about a culture change in the way residents with diabetes are cared for in order to bring about sustained benefits.
The NAPCHD was established as a multi-professional group of specialists working with PLWD and other key stakeholders in July 2020 with a key purpose of examining the whole area of diabetes care provision from a clinical care perspective to the perspective of existing communication channels between stakeholders, care home workforce development, community and primary care liaison, and the emergence of digital health support.
By producing the Strategic Document of Diabetes Care by the NAPCHD initiative, we hope to provide a set of potentially implementable recommendations that will ultimately enhance the quality of diabetes care delivered and lead to important improvements in the wellbeing, quality of life, and clinical outcomes of all residents with 5 diabetes. We anticipated that this would require a fundamental change in care provision for residents with diabetes particularly those who require complex care interventions, and would represent a new model of health and social care for residents with diabetes in care homes.
A STRATEGIC DOCUMENT OF DIABETES CARE FOR CARE HOMES
This document reflects on the importance of sound and effective communication channels between residents and families, care homes, community nursing and diabetes services, primary care, acute hospital services, eye specialist and optometry care services, nutritional and podiatry services, and the social serviced sector.
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Additional documents:
Primary Care checklist for Managing Diabetes in Care Home Residents