Foot in Diabetes UK (FDUK) is a multi-disciplinary organisation committed to leading and supporting high quality health care to improve outcomes for people with diabetes related foot disease
Attending a NICE stakeholder workshop for peripheral arterial disease
NICE - Why Peripheral Arterial Disease?
This tool can be used for reflection, risk review and risk reduction planning, by individual clinicians or teams, working with diabetes patients. It can be completed in 5 – 15 minutes either individually or in a team meeting.
Recommended associated reading: JJ Bending, AVM Foster, Litigation and the diabetic foot, Practical Diabetes Int. 2004; 21(1): 19–23
The toolkit is attached below.
The leading charity for people with diabetes in the UK invites applications from exceptional allied health professionals, nurses and midwives who wish to undertake research training related to diabetes.
11 Feb 2009
FDUK now has more than 1000 members from various countries around the globe including the UK, Australia, France, New Zealand, USA, Canada, Spain, Italy, India and more.
Members include Podiatrists, Diabetes Specialist Nurses, Doctors, Orthotists, Microbiologists, Podiatry Students and Lecturers, Student Nurses and many more professions.
Are you involved with diabetic foot education?
Would you be prepared to take part in a research study which would involve completion of a questionnaire which will take approximately 5 minutes?
The questionnaire is to determine what healthcare professionals consider appropriate foot care advice for basic diabetic foot health behaviour.
For further details please got to the following website to access the questionnaire:
Diabetic Foot Health Education Survey
Thank you.
Alistair McInnes
The Diabetic Foot Journal Celebrates ten years of publication this year.
The journal has played a substantial role in promoting the prevention and management of diabetic foot disease. In the Winter 2007 edition Mathew Young and Alistair McInnes give a very encouraging summary of the activities and successes over the last ten years and look forward to the long term future of diabetic foot care.
The FDUK Forum is for all members to use for discussion and reading. It includes access to shared guidelines on good practice related to the foot in diabetes, from around the UK. The Forum is very active with a variety of topics about the diabetic foot including: Pressure relief, wound healing, antibiotics, orthotics, debridement, unusual cases, chat etc.