Diabetes UK launches new five-year strategy to tackle the diabetes crisis
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Diabetes UK launches new five-year strategy to tackle the diabetes crisis

This article was taken from: https://pharmafield.co.uk/healthcare/diabetes-uk-launches-new-five-year-strategy-to-tackle-the-diabetes-crisis/ By Emma Morriss Reducing the number of people getting type 2 diabetes and gestational diabetes is one of five key outcomes in Diabetes UK’s new five-year strategy to tackle the diabetes crisis. The charity is launching the strategy to mark World Diabetes Day 2019. The ambitious strategy ‘A generation to…

NHS hospitals ‘unsafe’ for diabetics as quarter of a million experienced potentially life threatening errors last year, charity warns
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NHS hospitals ‘unsafe’ for diabetics as quarter of a million experienced potentially life threatening errors last year, charity warns

This article was taken from: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/diabetes-patients-nhs-hospitals-risk-life-threatening-errors-a8573046.html By Alex Matthews-King Health Correspondent Emergency care needed for 9,600 patients who went into diabetic comas after receiving too much insulin Diabetic patients in NHS hospitals are being put at risk of serious harm or death as a lack of specialist staff contributed to 260,000 medication errors last year, charities have warned….