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Finger prick: GPs face tough composite diabetes QOF target

QOF advisors back ministers' bid for 'all or nothing' diabetes target

GPs could be forced to offer a battery of diabetes checks under a single 'all or nothing' QOF target...

Finger prick: diabetes patients face higher heart failure risk

Diabetes patients face 65% higher risk of heart failure

Patients with diabetes face a far greater risk of heart failure and there are large variations in co...

Finger prick: new class of diabetes drugs approved

First-in-class diabetes drug launches in UK

A novel class of blood glucose-lowering treatment for type 2 diabetes has launched in the UK after g...

Finger prick: MPs want GPs to deliver all nine basic diabetes checks

Reform QOF to tackle 'depressingly poor' progress on diabetes, say MPs

GPs should be paid for completing all nine basic diabetes tests rather than individual ones, accordi...

Alcohol misuse raises AF risk

Alcohol misuse greatly raises the risk of AF among people with cardiovascular disease or diabetes, r...

Blood glucose test: new insulin cut risk of night-time hypoglycaemia

Night-time hypoglycaemia risk cut by new insulin

Patients' risk of night-time hypoglycaemia is lower when treated with a new, as-yet-unlicensed insul...

Blood samples: variation in HbA1c reduction down to genetics (photo: JH Lancy)

Diabetes treatment response determined by genetic variation

Genetic variation plays a large part in explaining why metformin is much better at lowering blood gl...

Baroness Young: poor implementation of scheme is a 'tragic failure'

Health check failings lead to missed diabetes cases

Thousands of cases of diabetes are being missed because PCTs have failed to organise enough NHS heal...

QOF: incentives drove up care in affluent areas first

QOF widened health inequalities, study suggests

QOF initially widened health inequalities after its introduction in 2004, with people in deprived ar...

Pharmacists: audit suggests pharmacists could improve dose optimisation and patient adherence to therapy (Photograph: SPL)

Research backs greater pharmacist role in long-term conditions care

Pharmacists should be more involved in the long-term management of people with type 2 diabetes to im...

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