This toolkit provides information and resources to support service planning and delivery. Services should be designed to ensure delivery is coordinated across all relevant agencies encompassing the whole diabetes care pathway. An integrated approach to provision of services is fundamental to the delivery of high-quality care to people with diabetes. Where possible and appropriate, linkage with long term condition care programmes will promote and strengthen implementation success. This toolkit will guide planners and funders, managers, clinicians and people with diabetes as they design and implement diabetes care services across the health continuum and local Diabetes Care Improvement Plans. Service design should occur in conjunction with locally agreed clinical pathways, such as the Map of Medicine or the Canterbury HealthPathways.
