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(asked on 23rd February 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to ensure Clinical Commissioning Groups commission foot protection services in accordance with NICE recommendations.


Answered by
Steve Brine Portrait
Steve Brine
This question was answered on 5th March 2018

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has published a guideline on ‘Diabetic foot problems: prevention and management’ (published in August 2015), which includes advice on establishing foot protection services.

This guideline covers preventing and managing foot problems in children, young people and adults with diabetes. The guideline aims to reduce variation in practice, and includes recommendations on:

- care within 24 hours;

- care across all care settings;

- referral for diabetic foot problems; and

- investigating and managing diabetic foot ulcer, diabetic foot infection and Charcot arthropathy.

NHS England would expect commissioners to take account of NICE guidance, which can be found here at:

https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng19

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