Guidance for cqc staff: Inspecting the quality of care for residents with diabetes mellitus living in care homes

Appendix 1 Service diabetes care assessment flow chart

Appendix 2: Further Guidance

National Guidance for Diabetes in Care Homes:

http://www.diabetes.org.uk/About_us/What-we-say/Diagnosis-ongoing-management-monitoring/Diabetes-care-for-older-people-resident-in-care-homes/
International Diabetes Federation (IDF) guidance on managing type 2 diabetes in older people:

http://www.idf.org/guidelines/managing-older-people-type-2-diabetes
England-wide Care Home Diabetes Audit:

http://diabetesfrail.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/England-wide-Care-Home-Diabetes-Audit.pdf
Sinclair AJ, Allard I, Bayer AJ. Observations of diabetes care in long-term institutional settings with measures of cognitive function and dependency. Diabetes Care 1997; 20(5):778-784
Sinclair AJ, Gadsby R, Penfold S et al. Prevalence of diabetes in care home residents. Diabetes Care 2001; 24(6): 1066-1068
Abdelhafiz AH, Sinclair AJ. Hypoglycaemia in residential care homes. Br J Gen Pract. 2009 Jan;59(558):49-50
Milligan FJ, Krentz AJ, Sinclair AJ. Diabetes medication patient safety incident reports to the National Reporting and Learning Service the care home setting. Diabet Med. 2011 Aug 26. doi: 10.1111/j.1464-5491.2011.03421.x. [Epub ahead of print]
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Sinclair AJ; Task and Finish Group of Diabetes UK. Good clinical practice guidelines for care home residents with diabetes: an executive summary. Diabet Med. 2011 Jul;28(7):772-7. doi: 10.1111/j.1464-5491.2011.03320.x. Review.
Sinclair AJ, Paolisso G, Castro M, Bourdel-Marchasson I, Gadsby R, Rodriguez Mañas L; European Diabetes Working Party for Older People. European Diabetes Working Party for Older People 2011 clinical guidelines for type 2 d iabetes mellitus. Executive summary. Diabetes Metab. 2011 Nov;37 Suppl 3:S27-38. Review
Speight J, Sinclair AJ, Browne JL, Woodcock A, Bradley C. Assessing the impact of diabetes on the quality of life of older adults living in a care home: validation of the ADDQoL Senior* Diabet Med. 2012 Jul 18. doi: 10.1111/j.1464-5491.2012.03748.x. [Epub ahead of print]
New IDF Guideline for managing type 2 diabetes in older people. Dunning T, Sinclair A, Colagiuri S.

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