Service providers ensure adequate staff training in diabetes care and access to a specialist diabetes team where required to ensure people with diabetes admitted to hospital are cared for by appropriately trained staff, provided with access to a specialist diabetes team, and given the choice of self-monitoring and managing their own insulin.
Health care professionals ensure they are skilled and appropriately trained to care for people with diabetes and have access to a specialist diabetes team, and ensure that people with diabetes have the choice of self-monitoring and managing their own insulin.
Planners and funders ensure they commission and adequately resource secondary care diabetes services at a level according to national specifications, to provide a consultative service in the inpatient setting. They should also support adequate staff education programmes to ensure people with diabetes admitted to hospital are cared for by appropriately trained staff.
People with diabetes who are admitted to hospital are cared for by trained staff, including a specialist diabetes team if needed, and are given the choice of self-monitoring their blood glucose levels and, for those on insulin therapy, managing their own insulin.
