Diabetic foot screening.

We talked earlier about prevention being better than a cure and the other aspect of prevention is diabetic foot screening. So everyone in the UK who has diabetes should have a foot screening procedure, the foot feet screened, once a year. This is a procedure, it's done run differently in different parts of the country, but essentially somebody, for example a practice nurse or diabetic foot screener or podiatrist should look at everyone with diabetes feet at least once a year to feel the foot pulses to set tests for nerve damage and to examine for changes in the shape of the foot and from these things that we can work out somebody's risk of ulceration and the person who does the screening should really tell the person with diabetes what their risk is so it's important then you can understand the risk of foot ulceration and there are standard information sheets that explain someone's diabetic foot risk i.e their risk of ulceration. So it's very important in terms of prevention to ensure that your feet are screened once a year by somebody and it's very helpful to understand and know that the risk of foot ulceration that that screening has given you.