Diabetes
Diabetes is a chronic disease that occurs when the pancreas does not produce enough insulin or when the body cannot effectively use the insulin it produces, causing an increase in glucose in the blood. Diabetes can affect the entire body and while there is currently no cure, patients can effectively manage it.
Approximately 1.9 million Australians have diabetes. Early diagnosis and optimal management during early stages can lead to better quality of life, decreased disease progression and mortality, and reduced complications.
Diabetes Pilot Collaborative
The Diabetes Collaborative is a quality improvement program working with general practice to improve the quality of life for people living with Diabetes and reduce preventable hospital admissions in our region.
The Diabetes Quality Improvement Collaborative kicked off in August 2024 with 14 general practices participating, and will run for 12 months. The aim of the program is to improve optimal care of adult patients living with diabetes by 20% by the end of June 2025.
Participating practices will make progress towards achieving this aim by addressing capacity, capability and coordination barriers to optimal diabetes care. In practice this means:
- Improving the management of patients living with diabetes
- Improving the quality of life of people living with diabetes
- Increasing confidence of primary care teams to look after people with diabetes with support as needed from the public health system
- Increasing awareness of access to public health services, private allied health and other services available to people living with diabetes amongst general practice staff and consumers
- Enhancing self-management and care capabilities of people living with diabetes
- Strengthening coordinated, integrated and multidisciplinary team care.
Diabetes Quality Improvement Toolkit
The Diabetes Quality Improvement Toolkit is designed to support general practice in making easy, measurable, and sustainable improvements to provide best-practice care for patients with diabetes. The toolkit will assist practices in completing QI activities using the Model for Improvement and guide them in exploring their data to understand more about their patient population and the pathways of care being provided in their practice.
General practice is the ideal setting to address identified care gaps for the treatment of diabetes. It is also ideal for primary and secondary intervention and is often the first point of contact for diagnosis, treatment, coordination, access to medications, additional tests, and referrals to other providers.
Diabetes in Children
Practices can order printed copies of the Type 1 Diabetes DKA patient posters from us. This resource is available in 13 different languages including:
- English
- Arabic
- Bengali
- Chinese
- French
- Hindi
- Indonesian
- Italian
- Samoan
- Spanish
- Tamil
- Turkish
- Vietnamese
Order copies
Order free printed copies by completing the form below, indicating the languages you require.
