What is FDUK?
Foot in Diabetes UK (FDUK) is a multi-disciplinary organisation, for professionals, committed to leading and supporting high quality health care to improve outcomes for people with diabetes related foot disease
Please note that for legal reasons this website cannot directly offer advice to individual members of the public on diabetic foot disease.
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT FOR PODIATRISTS SPECIALISING IN DIABETES IN THE UK
Diabetes UK needs your help
What don't we know about Podiatrists working in specialist diabetes posts?
- We don't currently know how many diabetes podiatrists there are in the UK specialising in managing the diabetic foot
- We don't know to what extent those podiatrists calling themselves diabetes specialists have received relevant appropriate training
Pan-London Diabetes Foot Health Stakeholder Meeting 28/9/2010
Date: 28th September 2010 from 9am - 4.30pm
Venue
Governors Hall
St Thomas’s Hospital
Westminster Bridge Road
London
SE1 7EH
NHS Diabetes are delighted to be holding a Pan-London Diabetes Foot Health Stakeholder meeting
Why is this event important?
Invite to gather views and feedback on the recent NHS White Paper to improve diabetes care 10/9/2010
The following announcement is placed by Max Jones of www.purplerockevents.co.uk:
Dear colleagues,
We are delighted to invite you to attend the NHS Diabetes event to gather views and feedback on the recent White Paper: "Equity and Excellence. Liberating the NHS , How can the NHS White Paper improve diabetes care?"
Please note that this event is NOT a learning event, and by accepting the invitation there is an expectation that you will:
· have read the White Paper in detail
A "NICE" day in London - report by Martin Fox
Attending a NICE stakeholder workshop for peripheral arterial disease
NICE - Why Peripheral Arterial Disease?
DH AHP Independent Prescribing Project for Podiatrists
Toolkit for reducing litigation risk
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.
Diabetes UK Allied Health Professional, Nurse and Midwife Research Training Fellowship
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.
FDUK Membership numbers now more than 1500
25 Aug 2010
FDUK now has more than 1500 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.
Call for volunteers to take part in a Diabetes Foot Project
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
