Diabetes

Diabetes is a condition that affects how the body regulates blood glucose (sugar) levels. This page provides information to support the safe and effective management of diabetes, including medicines, monitoring and self-management approaches to help people live well with their condition.

The prescribing guidance, formularies, pathways and information on this website have transferred from the predecessor organisations that now form NHS Central East ICB.

Guidance may not be available for all clinical topics or geographic areas. Where guidance is available, it is clearly identified as applying to Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes (BLMK), Cambridgeshire and Peterborough (C&P), Hertfordshire or Central East (CE).

Guidance labelled Central East (CE) has been harmonised and approved for use across NHS Central East ICB. Where CE guidance is not available, local arrangements for BLMK, C&P or Hertfordshire remain in place.

For Hertfordshire prescribing guidance, please visit: www.hweclinicalguidance.nhs.uk

Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes

Glucose Monitors information Sheet (pdf)

Primary Care Best Practice Guidance – self-monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG) for adult patients living with type 2 diabetes (pdf)

High strength, fixed combination and biosimilar insulin products: Minimising the risk of medication error – Safety Reminder (pdf)

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough

Humulin U500 for Patients with Severe Insulin Resistance – Prescribing Support Document (pdf)