Multi-disciplinary Community Diabetes Service
Background:
- Bury has a prevalence of diabetes of 3.8% and it is rising; by 2020 it is estimated that 5.9% of the population will have diabetes.
- Around 2000 people in Bury have diabetes and don’t yet know.
- Early diagnosis and treatment decreases the chance of long term complications.
- Early diagnosis allows target Blood Glucose levels to be achieved with relative ease.
Community Diabetes Service
Community Diabetes Service provides a high quality specialist diabetes management for adults with diabetes. The service includes prevention, screening and education. The service works closely with other health care professionals, including GPs.
The diabetes team comprises of diabetes specialist nurses (DSN), diabetes specialist dietitian (DSD), diabetes specialist podiatrist and a consultant diabetologist (a consultant who specialises in diabetes).
Services are delivered across the borough of Bury to ensure equal access to all, including ethnic minority and those with social differences which may have an impact on both the risk and management of patients with diabetes.
The Community Diabetes Service has a consultant clinical lead.
The service aims are:
- To provide an intermediate level service that can effectively assess adults with type 1 and type 2 diabetes and formulate appropriate management plans, which, for the majority of patients, can be implemented and monitored by their own GP practice.
- To engage and empower people with diabetes to manage their own condition, including jointly agreeing, and providing them with a copy of their agreed management plan.
- To reduce the number of people accessing hospital-based diabetes services by improving the referral and discharge management of people with diabetes to and from those services.
- To improve the patient experience and choice for people with diabetes, by providing clinical care based on clinical evidence and best practice guidelines.
- To develop comprehensive professional development programmes for other health care professionals within community services and primary health care teams to support primary care focused services for people with diabetes.
- To promote self-care and self-management for people with diabetes, through the provision of the X-PERT structured and/or one-to-one patient education programmes and links with the Expert Patient Programme.
- To achieve good clinical outcomes for patients in accordance with (as a minimum) the criteria and standards set out within the GMS Contract Quality & Outcomes Framework and the National Framework (NSF) for Diabetes.
Clinics are held at:
- Moorgate Primary Care Centre every Monday 1.15pm to 3.45pm
- Prestwich Walk-in Centre alternate Wednesdays 8.45am to 11.15am
Each appointment will last for 1 hour 30 mins which equates to half an hour with each team member - consultant, diabetes specialist nurse (DSN) and a diabetes specialist dietitian (DSD).
Who is eligible to access our service?
All adults with type 1 diabetes (except patients with diabetes keto-acidosis - as a result of high blood glucose) and type 2 diabetes (except those with complex needs or serious complications).
How to access our service
By referral from Bury GPs.
How to contact us
Community Diabetes Service
Room 135, First Floor, Moorgate Primary Care Centre,
22 Derby Way, Bury BL9 0NJ
T: 0161 447 9847
F: 0161 447 9848