These standards should be considered when planning your local service delivery. They provide guidance for clinical quality service planning and implementation of equitable and comprehensive patient-centred care – scaled to local diabetes prevalence. They should be read alongside the NZ Guidelines Group (NZGG) and other guidelines which highlight specific clinical expectations. These standards are specific to people with diabetes – those identified with pre-diabetes should be managed in accordance with the specific advice provided by the Ministry of Health (2013a).
The Standards are arranged into five topic groupings:
