Diabetes Footcare

1 North West Coast Strategic Clinical Network Diabetes Footcare Pathway Blueprint (2017) 2 Diabetes Footcare Project 1: Pathway Development Written 2017 Main Author: Dr Paul Mackenzie MSc, BA (Hons), DipHE, RGN. Senior Network Manager (Strategic Clinical Network) Purpose of the project 1 paper To set out the revised NWC SCN blueprint of NWC region Diabetes Footcare pathway Recommendations That it is agreed that the Diabetes Footcare pathway to be used as a blueprint for developing or adopting the pathway for local use across NWC. 3 Foreword There are an estimated million people with Diabetes in UK alone. An estimated 10% or around 450,000 of Diabetes patients develop a foot ulcer at some point in their lives. More than 7000 Diabetes related amputations are reported in the UK per year. These figures suggest that potentially 200,000 Diabetes patients with foot ulcers may not be alive in 5 years and more than 5500 patients with Diabetes related amputations every year have less than 5 years to live.

management and in order to do this effectively patients need the relevant and appropriate tools, structured education is one such tool. 1.7. A number of studies have demonstrated that proper management of diabetic foot ulcers can greatly reduce, delay or prevent complications such

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