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Diabetes care 'failing'

The Department of Health has been accused of failing to deliver a standard level of care to diabetes patients across England, 11 years after they were set.

A report by the National Audit Office has revealed a wild regional variation in care.

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Poor diabetes care could lead to 'blindness or loss of limb'

David Moon from the National Audit Office (NAO) has said that as the number of people with diabetes grows it is, "much better to stop patients having nasty complications by managing their condition better than them ending up either issues around blindness or having loss of limb."

The NAO has found that only half of diabetes patients are receiving the full care plan recommended by NICE.

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