Aileen Rohan from the INMO library team suggests some useful resources and INMO workshops available on diabetes care

Diabetes is a serious life-long disease for individuals and unlike other chronic diseases, it cannot be cured, but only controlled. Control of the complications of diabetes is essential to the quality of life of affected people.

The health services spend large amounts of funding on diabetes care, particularly in the area of treating complications. Better management and control of diabetes, together with early detection and treatment of complications will reduce complications, bringing both benefit to the individual and to the health services.

The Professional Development Centre has put together Diabetes Workshops focusing on the assessment, care and management of diabetes patients. Further information is available on the INMO website (www.inmo.ie) and bookings can be made by telephoning: 01-6640641/2.

Below are some of the more important national documents from the HSE on the management of diabetes as well as some recent articles on research studies about diabetes from Irish authors.

Important HSE documents

• HSE (2008). A Practical Guide to Integrated Type 2 Diabetes Care
• HSE West (2009). Diabetes Resource Manual, 2nd Edition
• HSE (2010). Guidelines for the Management of Pre-gestational and Gestational Diabetes Mellitus from Pre-conception to the Post natal Period
• HSE (2011). Nursing practice in foot screening and education of the patient with diabetes in foot care is guided by the National Diabetes Programme Model of Care for the Diabetic Foot

Other articles

• Gallagher, N, Bennett, K, Smith, S M, O’Reilly, D. (2014). Impact of two different health systems on the burden of type 2 diabetes. Journal of Health Services Research and Policy. 19(2): 69-76
• McDermott, A M, Kidd, P, Gately, M, Casey, R, Burke, H, O’Donnell, P, Kirrane, F, Dinneen, S F, O’Brien, T. (2013) Restructuring of the Diabetes Day Centre: a pilot lean project in a tertiary referral centre in the West of Ireland. BMJ Quality and Safety. 22 (8): 681-8.
• Begley, T. (2013) Transition to adult care for young people with long-term conditions. British Journal of Nursing. 22(9): 506-11
• Kelly, S, Dolan, C, Hurley, L, Kelly, L, Garrow, A, O’Shea, E, Glynn, L, Dinneen, S. (2010). Prevalence of diabetic foot complications in the west of Ireland: a pilot study. Diabetic Foot Journal. 13(2): 82-91
• Turns, M. (2012). The diabetic foot: an overview for community nurses. British Journal of Community Nursing. 17(9): 422-433

Literature searching service
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