Foot Care
Diabetes Clinical Network Foot Care Subgroup
The group provides the following support:
- 3 Meetings a year to provide support and shared practice.
- An annual diabetes foot care survey to identify gaps in the MDFT services across Kent, Surrey and Sussex against NICE guidelines (CG19)
- Sharing of best practice to develop agreed guidelines and protocols which have been identified from the survey.
- Explore the feasibility of RCA (Root, Cause, Analysis for major amputations)
- Ongoing support to ensure that foot care is considered in vascular reconfiguration programmes
- Facilitate discussions on provision of structured foot health education programmes
- Support participation in the National Foot Care Audit