Cost of diabetes care in the UK

A new 12-page report published by Diabetes UK calls diabetes (all types) one of the biggest health challenges for the UK.

This report, Diabetes: beware the silent assassin (PDF) shows that diabetes costs the NHS (National Health Service) in the UK £1 million ($1.72 million) per hour, and causes more deaths that prostate and breast cancer combined.

If this is true for the UK (population 60 million, and 2.3 million with diabetes), you can image the impact in the US, which has five times as many people and about ten times more people with diabetes.



Diabetes is a serious disease with no simple solutions, there may not be all that much we can do in the short term to reduce the impact. Although page seven of the report does have some suggestions for reducing the risk of developing type 2 diabetes.

In my mind one of the key factors for success in diabetes management is having a good support organization. These days I can't recommend a better place for support than TuDiabetes.com. It's an amazing resource for sharing information and getting help with all types of diabetes-related issues and I wish many more folks with diabetes were benefiting from the site.

Drop by and try it out.

Labels: community, costs, diabetes, risk

posted by Bernard @ 5:53 PM