Diabetes care Resources

Here, Callum Metcalfe-O’Shea, advanced nurse practitioner diabetes specialist and co-chair for the Norfolk Health Professionals Diabetes Forum, looks at how remission in type 2 diabetes can be achieved in some cases. Definitions of remission are explored as well as the challenges patients may face. Dietary advice and pharmacological interventions are considered to help general practice nurses (GPNs) structure their approach in achieving remission for suitable patients with type 2 diabetes.

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.