HC Deb 22 January 2004 vol 416 cc1425-6W
Mrs. Curtis-Thomas

To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) whether South Sefton's Primary Care Organisation has appointed a clinical champion for diabetes; [148997]

(2) what the percentage is of general practitioners providing (a) diabetes clinics and (b) other forms of structured diabetes care for South Sefton Primary Care Trust; [149000]

(3) whether people with diabetes are able to have (a) blood glucose tests with results on the same day, (b) urine tests with results on the same day, (c) access on the same day to specialist expertise within primary care and (d) access to equipment for retinopathy screening with interpretation on the same day, under South Sefton Primary Care Trust; [149018]

(4) whether South Sefton Primary Care Organisation has a protocol for the transfer of young people with diabetes from paediatric services to adult services; [149019]

(5) whether South Sefton Primary Care Organisation has a local diabetes implementation and planning group to lead service commissioning; [148998]

(6) whether South Sefton Primary Care Organisation (a) has a population-based register and (b) uses general practitioners' practice-based registers; [149001]

(7) whether South Sefton Primary Care Organisation has a strategy for early identification of people with diabetes; [149002]

(8) whether the South Sefton Primary Care Trust provided training in the management of diabetes in the last two years for (a) general practitioners and (b) diabetes clinics; [148999]

(9) whether. South Sefton Primary Care Trust provides joint specialist diabetes and obstetric clinics for people in the area; [149020]

(10) whether the South Sefton Primary Care Trust provides joint specialist renal and diabetes clinics for people with diabetes who have renal complications; [149021]

(11) how often people are routinely recalled for retinopathy screening by South Sefton Primary Care Trust; and whether digital cameras are used; [149003]

(12) what percentage of people with diabetes were screened in the period April 2002 to March 2003 by South Sefton Primary Care Trust; [149004]

(13) whether people with diabetes in the South Sefton Primary Care Trust area are invited to diabetes education sessions with a healthcare professional; [149005]

(14) what written information is available on (a) diabetes, (b) self-management of diabetes, (c) personal diabetes record and care plans, (d) local diabetes services, (e) outcomes of care and (f) Diabetes UK to people diagnosed with diabetes by South Sefton Primary Care Trust; and in what languages this material is available; [149015]

(15) whether South Sefton Primary Care Trust's register enables the call and recall of invitations for people with diabetes to attend services; [149016]

(16) whether people with diabetes in the South Sefton Primary Care Trust area are able to access (a) routine diabetes care and (b) risk factor monitoring in a single visit; [149017]

(17) whether the South Sefton Primary Care Trust provides foot care clinics for those at high risk of developing lower limb complications. [149022]

Miss Melanie Johnson

This information is not collected centrally. However it can be obtained from the following website: www.drfoster.co.uk/diabetes/objectlist.aspx?obid = 271&w = 1 &p = 1.

The website can be accessed via www.diabetes.org.uk.