Quality Standards for Diabetes Care Toolkit

Acknowledgements

The project team wishes to acknowledge those people and organisations who provided their advice, expertise and critical review during the development of the toolkit.
The project team comprised:

Dr Helen Snell, Nurse Practitioner – Project Lead

Dr Claire Budge, Researcher

Dr Mandy Wilkinson, RN, Research Assistant

Kelly McNabb, RN, Project Assistant.
The project team was supported by an Advisory Group consisting of:

Chris Baty, President Diabetes New Zealand

Tui Hancock, Nurse Practitioner Whānau Ora, Central Primary Health Organisation

Kate Smallman, Diabetes Nurse Specialist, Diabetes Project Trust and East Tamaki General Practice

Shelley Mitchell, Diabetes Specialist Dietitian and Chair Diabetes Special Interest Group of Dietitians New Zealand

Dr Jeremy Krebs, Endocrinologist and Clinical Leader of Endocrinology and Diabetes at Capital and Coast District Health Board and President of the New Zealand Society for the Study of Diabetes

Dr Brandon Orr-Walker, Endocrinologist, Clinical Head of Endocrinology, Middlemore Hospital, South Auckland

Dr Helen Rodenburg, General Practitioner and Clinical Director CVD Diabetes Long Term Conditions Ministry of Health

Sam Kemp-Milham, Programme Manager CVD Diabetes Long Term Conditions, Ministry of Health.
The Quality Standards for Diabetes Care in New Zealand have drawn on the Quality Statements issued by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). Where relevant, the NICE statements and assessment criteria have been utilised to inform the content of the information contained in this toolkit.
For further information, please contact:

Sam Kemp-Milham

Programme Manager
CVD Diabetes Long Term Conditions
Ministry of Health