It covers a pilot Primary Care-based structured Pharmacist Prescriber-led diabetes service focusing on patients with type 2 diabetes not meeting at least one of the three National Diabetes Audit treatment targets.
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The intervention worked and resulted in a significant improvement in achievement of all three targets (blood pressure, HbA1c and total cholesterol). It also improved achievement of the eight key care processes, notably measurement of urine albumin.
Hot off the press
We've just published a paper in the Journal of Medical Economics showing that adding the Parkinson’s KinetiGraph (the PKG, a wrist-worn movement recording device that collates continuous, objective, data during daily activities in people with Parkinson’s disease (PD) providing a report for clinicians) to standard monitoring of PD is a cost-effective option.