Diabetes care 'failing'

Jade White was diagnosed in January with diabetes, she had lost weight and visited her GP several times without the condition being spotted.

She became frustrated and went to a walk-in centre where she was immediately diagnosed and sent to A&E.

Jade has also told ITV News that while in hospital doctors admitted to her that they knew nothing about diabetes.

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.

In some regions, only 6% of sufferers received the recommended levels of care compared to 69% in the highest-achieving primary care trusts (PCTs), a National Audit Office (NAO) report found.

Across England only half the number people with diabetes received the recommended standards of care in 2009 to 2010.