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- Title
Setting up the structured Pump Advanced Carbohydrate Education programme.
- Authors
Cardwell, Jan; O'Brien, Sarah; Wessels, Lara; Hardy, Kevin; Furlong, Niall
- Abstract
Enabling patients to have a say in the design and delivery of local health services is a key priority in the NHS. The St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust diabetes team aimed to set up a peer support group for people with type 1 diabetes to aid in carbohydrate counting while on multiple daily injections (MDI) or insulin pump therapy (continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion [CSII]) and to collaborate with them to improve their CSII service. Most of the CSII users had completed the Insulin and Carbohydrate Education (ICE) course, for intensive management of type 1 diabetes, prior to commencing CSII therapy and these individuals suggested that a similar course based around CSII would improve their self-management skills. In response to this feedback, the team established the Pump Advanced Carbohydrate Education (PACE) programme for the CSII users, which has now been incorporated into routine care. PACE has proved extremely popular and has been associated with much participant satisfaction.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; CARBOHYDRATE content of food; INSULIN pumps; DRUG infusion pumps; PEOPLE with diabetes; DIABETES; GREAT Britain. National Health Service; PATIENT education; INTERPROFESSIONAL relations; PATIENT-professional relations; EVIDENCE-based medicine; HUMAN services programs; EVALUATION of human services programs
- Publication
Journal of Diabetes Nursing, 2011, Vol 15, Issue 9, p274
- ISSN
1368-1109
- Publication type
Article