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Diabetes
Discussion on the importance of rapid, multidisciplinary care for diabetic patients with foot problems to prevent amputations.
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Patients with diabetes and foot problems need rapid, open access to multidisciplinary care. They have two specific problems, ischemia and infection and these need expert assessment. We say that diabetic patients can have an intact foot on Monday and ulcer on Tuesday, infection on Wednesday, gangrene on Thursday and lose their leg on Friday. And this defeats every healthcare system in the world. So to reduce the number of amputations in the UK, we need multidisciplinary clinics throughout the land who can take in patients within 24 hours and give them expert multidisciplinary care.
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