Do we need a national screening programme for diabetes?
Diabetes currently affects almost three million people in the UK, of whom about 90% have type 2 diabetes.
This month NICE recommended that all adults aged 40 and above should have a risk assessment for type 2 diabetes but has not suggested a national screening programme.

From Behind the Rituals
Why do you do the things you do? How much of nursing practice is based on ritual and myth and how much on sound evidence? If you have a ritual you’d like to discuss here, email nursingtimescomments@emap.com


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