Diabetes education is key to avoid diabetes-related complications.

Katherine Calder gives her views on how general practice nurses can help patients to better manage their diabetes.

How many people with diabetes do you see in your practice every week? With 3.9 million people now living with diabetes in the UK (Health and Social Care Information Centre [HSCIC], 2014), and this number rising all the time, it’s likely that more and more of your patients have diabetes.