Perioperative care plan provides benefits for patients with diabetes

摘要

Patients with diabetes who are due to undergo surgery have benefitted from specialised pre-operative care to help identify any specific surgical needs and optimise glyoaemic control, as a result of a pharmacy-led service at St George's Hospital in South West London. The finalist team at the 2015 Pharmaceutical Care Awards developed personalised perioperative care plans for 105 patients during the course of their four-month project. Speaking at the event, surgical pharmacist Minal Patel said: "One of the challenges we had at the start of the project was actually putting a referral pathway in place so that for the very first time our patients with diabetes were being picked up by our pre-assessment nurses and being referred to a pharmacist."