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Guidance

Guidance and standards in diabetes for health and care professionals.

Guidance

  • What do I need to know about diabetes

    Organisation: University of Leeds, Leeds and partnership NHS Foundation Trust and Diabetes UK
    Type: Resource
    Date published: Regularly Updated
    Description: This is a step by step easy read guide about diabetes. It advices people on - what to do if they find out they have diabetes and what kind of food is best to have when you have diabetes.

  • Diabetes

    Organisation: NHS England
    Type: Guidance
    Date published: Undated
    Description: Resources to raise awareness of diabetes

  • Diabetes (type 1 and type 2) in children and young people: diagnosis and management

    Organisation: NICE
    Type: Guidance
    Date published: 11.05.23
    Description: Diagnosis and treatment guidance on diabetes (type 1 and type 2) in children and young people: diagnosis and management

  • Diabetes UK: Improving care for people with diabetes and a learning disability

    Organisation: Diabetes UK
    Type: Resources
    Date published:
    Description: This is a collection of resources and tools for professionals to improve care for people with a learning disability. Includes easy read information.

  • Diabetic eye screening

    Organisation: Public Health England
    Type: Guidance
    Date published: September 2018
    Description: This easy read guide tells you what is a diabetes eye screening test for people aged 12 years old and older

  • Eye screening for women with diabetes

    Organisation: Public Health England, NHS
    Type: Guidance
    Date published: February 2017
    Description: An easy guide to screening tests when you are pregnant

  • Health matters: preventing Type 2 Diabetes

    Organisation: Public Health England
    Type: Guidance (general population)
    Date published: May 2018
    Description: This professional resource outlines how to optimise the NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme (NHS DPP) in order to identify those already found to be at risk of developing Type 2 diabetes and offer support that will help them reduce their risk of developing the disease.

  • How to make reasonable adjustments to diabetes care for adults with a learning disability

    Organisation: Diabetes UK
    Type: Guidance
    Date published: 2018
    Description: Use this guide to: Deliver diabetes care that is accessible to adults with a learning disability and assess an existing service for its accessibility

  • Improving Health: Annual Health Checks

    Organisation: NHS England
    Type: Films and Guidance
    Date published: June 2022
    Description: Exemplars of AHCs, Films about their importance from people with lived experience, AHCs in secondary care pilot. Published June 2022

  • Increasing the uptake of Annual Health Checks for people with a learning disability: videos for professionals

    Organisation: NHS England
    Type: Films
    Date published: Oct 2021
    Description: Various films for healthcare professionals working in primary care to increase knowledge of AHCs which can check on Diabetes management, support and general wellbeing.

  • Legal information about diabetes in schools

    Organisation: Diabetes UK
    Type: Guidance
    Date published: Regularly Updated
    Description: Legal information about diabetes in schools

  • NICE Impact: People with a Learning Disability

    Organisation: National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)
    Type: Guidance
    Date published: Nov 2021
    Description: General guidance on working with people with a learning disability including the importance of Annual Health Checks which include Diabetes and staying well

  • NICE: Diabetes

    Organisation: National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)
    Type: Guidance
    Date published: Regularly Updated
    Description: All NICE guidance on Diabetes. Includes guidance, advice and quality standards.

  • Reasonable Adjustments for people with a learning disability

    Organisation: Public Health England
    Type: Guidance
    Date published: Updated Jan 2020
    Description: Guidance on the legal duties for clinicians and others on making reasonable adjustments for people with a learning disability under the law.

  • Reasonable adjustments for people with a learning disability who have diabetes

    Organisation: NHS RightCare
    Type: Pathway
    Date published: Nov 2017
    Description: Guidance for commissioners on Diabetes among people with a learning disability and making reasonable adjustments.

  • Rightcare pathway: Diabetes

    Organisation: NHS England
    Type: Guidance
    Date published: Undated
    Description: The diabetes pathway defines the core components of an optimal diabetes service for people with or at risk of developing Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes that delivers the better value in terms of outcomes and cost.

  • Stay Well This Winter

    Organisation: NHS England
    Type: Guidance booklet
    Date published: Winter 2022/23
    Description: Easy read version of the Stay Well This Winter guidance, which includes guidance on staying warm, looking after your mental health, vaccinations and more

  • Tips for autistic adults managing diabetes - Autism Speaks

    Organisation: Autism Speaks
    Type: Guidance
    Date published: Regularly Updated
    Description: Tips for autistic adults managing diabetes

  • Type 2 diabetes in adults: management

    Organisation: National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)
    Type: Guidance
    Date published: June 2022
    Description: This guideline covers care and management for adults (aged 18 and over) with type 2 diabetes.

  • Use of reasonable adjustments to reduce health inequalities for people with a learning disability

    Organisation: NHS England
    Type: Films and Guidance
    Date published: Jun 2022
    Description: A film about Kareem and his mum Fazilla’s experience of reasonable adjustments and the difference it makes to them when reasonable adjustments are offered.

  • Weight management for people with learning disabilities

    Organisation: The Association of UK Dieticians
    Type: Guidance
    Date published: Regularly Updated
    Description: Resources and policies on reducing health inequalities and supporting food choices, including the policy paper ' Tackling Obesity'.

  • What is type 1 diabetes - Diabetes UK

    Organisation: Diabetes UK
    Type:
    Date published: 21.03.24
    Description:

  • What is type 2 diabetes - Diabetes UK

    Organisation: Diabetes UK
    Type:
    Date published: 21.03.24
    Description:

  • What to do when you have Type 2 diabetes - An easy read guide

    Organisation: Diabetes UK
    Type: Guidance
    Date published:
    Description: This easy read document tells you information about type 2 diabetes including - what is type 2 diabetes, letting people know what happens when seeing someone including a doctor or a nurse and Information about treatment

  • Why Diabetes Check-ups Matter - Easy Read

    Organisation: Diabetes UK
    Type: Guidance
    Date published: 2024
    Description: This easy read guide tells you about what to expect before, during and after a diabetes check-up and why they are important

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