Standards 5 & 6 (care of Children with Diabetes)

Standards 5 & 6 - Clinical care of children and young people with diabetes

(please see link at bottom of page for further information)

The partial booking system is now being implemented and rolled out during the next few months. You will no longer be given an appointment 3 months in advance, but will have to contact the clinic nearer the time (eg 3 months later) to make an appointment. If an appointment is not made around the due date, then you will receive a reminder text message (so please ensure you have passed your mobile number on to the Diabetes team). As this is a new system, it will be closely monitored and reviewed during the initial stages so please give any feedback (good or bad) to the Diabetes team.
Eight children have transferred on to insulin pumps this financial year, making a total of 23 altogether, which is great news. However, unfortunately, this year’s allocation has now been used up so there won’t be any more pumps available until the new financial year (April 2012).
The ‘Out of Hours’ service (ie a 24 hour phone line) that we have requested is being considered, although it joins a long list of suggestions. As you may know, there are major changes underway in the NHS which will impact on decision-making in the short term, but we will keep this on the Agenda until it’s resolved.
The next Standards 5 & 6 meeting is scheduled for 23^rd September so if you have any issues you would like us to raise please call the Group’s mobile number and leave a message or send an email via the ‘Contact Us’ page. Either way, your message will be received by the Group Chair who attends the meetings.

The aim of these standards is to ensure that the special needs of children and young people with diabetes are recognised and met, thereby ensuring that, when they enter adulthood, they are in the best of health and able to manage their own day-to-day diabetes care effectively.

Click on this link to take you to the National Service Framework document which sets out twelve new standards and the key interventions necessary to raise the standards of diabetes care: http://www.dh.gov.uk/prod_consum_dh/groups/dh_digitalassets/@dh/@en/documents/digitalasset/dh_4058938.pdf