Diabetes 2000 has evolved over 6 years from a practice-based audit to a cross-sector, multidisciplinary, multi-agency project. Its prime aim is to improve the care of people with diabetes in Manchester. There are 93 out of 111 practices and all four Trusts now involved. The prevalence of diabetes kn
Primary Care Diabetes conference, 1997: delivering sensitive diabetes care
β Scribed by M.S. Hall
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 51 KB
- Volume
- 15
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0742-3071
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