Use extended roles for diabetes care for children

摘要

Community pharmacists could use their extended roles to help fill a gap in services for children with diabetes,it was suggested last week,ahead of World Diabetes Day on 14 November.They could carry out periodic medicines use reviews or could offer child diabetes testing in the pharmacy if appropriate.The suggestions come from Wakefield community pharmacist Irene Gummerson,who helped compile Royal Pharmaceutical Society practice guidance on diabetes for pharmacists.And they follow publication of a report earlier this month by Diabetes UK that revealed that children with diabetes are not getting the care they deserve because of lack of investment in services and over-stretched staff (see Panel).