This week a surgeon I work for says he cannot remember a single diabetic that he has operated on with an hba1c under 9.0....
Perhaps though from listening to Patients at my Practice... They don't always take in specimen tests, they miss the feet check ups... So are those patients being classified as ones not getting their full tests, when they failed to go etc... Not the GP's as they do send out letters for everything...
Speaking to three type 2's today, they didn't test and didn't want to either. All 3 were there for blood tests but had failed to take in their specimens as they 'forgot' ......
I am not an NHS person, but part of what I am busy with is talking to Patients about their satisfaction regarding our Practice, and so often we end up talking and laughing etc. It just seems that yes, some of our NHS fail, but so too do Patients.
We have quite a few people that come on to this forum saying that they had given up for a while but want to take control now, as well as people fed up that they aren't getting the expected standards of care. Does everybody then get categorised in to the NHS failing group, do they take in to account the Patients that fail to attend their checkups or get their specimens taken in etc.