Providing Diabetes Care in General Practice

Mary MacKinnon RGN, MMed Sci, was appointed Senior Lecturer in Diabetes Care at the University of Warwick in 1999 and is the Director of Education for Warwick Diabetes Care.

Chapter 1: Responsibilities of those involved in the provision of diabetes care. Chapter 2: Educational needs of the team. Chapter 3: Diabetes mellitus in the United Kingdom. Chapter 4: The diabetes service in general practice. Chapter 5: The symptoms of diabetes mellitus. Chapter 6: Providing the service. Chapter 7: Treating diabetes. Chapter 8: Drug and insulin therapy. Chapter 9: Control of blood glucose levels. Chapter 10: Eye care and screening. Chapter 11: Foot care and surveillance. Chapter 12: Aspects of culture relating to diabetes care. Chapter 13: Education for self-management. Chapter 14: Living with diabetes: information requirements. Chapter 15: Monitoring and audit of practice diabetes care. Chapter 16: Diabetes mellitus: a history of the condition. Chapter 17: Type 1 diabetes mellitus. Chapter 18: Type 2 diabetes mellitus. Chapter 19: Other categories of diabetes (as defined by WHO). Chapter 20: Other causes of diabetes - secondary diabetes. Chapter 21: The complications of diabetes. Chapter 22: New Insights. Appendix 1: The St Vincent Declaration: Diabetes Care and Research in Europe. Appendix 2: St Vincent Declaration recommendations for the care of children. Appendix 3: What care people with diabetes should expect. Appendix 4: Primary Care Diabetes UK. Appendix 5: Diabetes Industry Group. Appendix 6: Requirements of Health Authorities. Appendix 7: BDA recommendations for the management of diabetes in primary care. Appendix 8: Resources for the provision of diabetes care. Appendix 9: Template for a locally produced patient-held record card. Index.