Housebound patients with diabetes needing support with insulin—a project to improve service standards

摘要

An increasing number of people require support to manage their diabetes due to other conditions that affect their ability to self-care, such as dementia and arthritis (Diabetes UK, 2010). Community staff have a growing caseload of people who require this support. It is therefore important that they have the knowledge and skills to give the right care to people with diabetes, which could even involve delegation of insulin administration. This article briefly describes a project being conducted within a clinical commissioning group (CCG) in East Kent with the aim of improving the community nursing team's insulin administration service for vulnerable homebound adults with diabetes.