North Staffordshire & Stoke on Trent Diabetes Education Service

In November 2015 the Staffordshire Health and Wellbeing Intelligence group produced a report on Diabetes Prevention. This report indicated that with improvements in awareness, early diagnosis and recording; and the current obesity trend; the prevalence of Diabetes across Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire will continue to increase and will be 8.7% by 2020 and 11.3% by 2030. The necessary lifestyle changes, the complexities of management and the side effects of therapy make education for people with diabetes a central...