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GPs have been urged to screen all patients aged over 40 years and offer annual checks to those at high risk of diabetes in a major drive to reduce the numbers of patients developing the disease.
Practices will be expected to go through their lists and carry out a risk assessment in everyone aged 40 years or over without diabetes, and anyone 25 years or older in a high-risk group, under the NICE guidelines.
NICE recommends anyone identified as high risk should have a blood test, and those with HbA1c levels that put them at high risk of developing diabetes should be offered an ‘intensive lifestyle change programme' and annual checks from practices.
In those whose blood glucose levels continue to rise, putting them at risk of diabetes, the guidelines also recommend GPs consider prescribing metformin off-label for the first time to ‘support lifestyle change'.
Professor Kamlesh Khunti, professor of primary care diabetes at the University of Leicester and chair of the programme development group at NICE, said: ‘Evidence has showed that an intensive lifestyle programme, where patients make simple changes, like changing their diet, can help prevent the onset of diabetes. This is really welcome guidance.'
Although GP leaders said it would have huge financial implications for all GP practices and they would need additional investment to implement it.
http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/main-conten ... r-diabetes
To compliment this initiative Diabetes UK have today launched an on line diabetes risk assessment test. You can try it here http://www.diabetes.org.uk/Riskscore/
Perhaps advise friends and relatives to try it as well :thumbup:
Personally I think its good news that NICE are trying to do something about the rising amount of diabetes cases and I hope that GP's are able to implement this. What do you think?
Practices will be expected to go through their lists and carry out a risk assessment in everyone aged 40 years or over without diabetes, and anyone 25 years or older in a high-risk group, under the NICE guidelines.
NICE recommends anyone identified as high risk should have a blood test, and those with HbA1c levels that put them at high risk of developing diabetes should be offered an ‘intensive lifestyle change programme' and annual checks from practices.
In those whose blood glucose levels continue to rise, putting them at risk of diabetes, the guidelines also recommend GPs consider prescribing metformin off-label for the first time to ‘support lifestyle change'.
Professor Kamlesh Khunti, professor of primary care diabetes at the University of Leicester and chair of the programme development group at NICE, said: ‘Evidence has showed that an intensive lifestyle programme, where patients make simple changes, like changing their diet, can help prevent the onset of diabetes. This is really welcome guidance.'
Although GP leaders said it would have huge financial implications for all GP practices and they would need additional investment to implement it.
http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/main-conten ... r-diabetes
To compliment this initiative Diabetes UK have today launched an on line diabetes risk assessment test. You can try it here http://www.diabetes.org.uk/Riskscore/
Perhaps advise friends and relatives to try it as well :thumbup:
Personally I think its good news that NICE are trying to do something about the rising amount of diabetes cases and I hope that GP's are able to implement this. What do you think?
