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Is being diabetic a need priority for podiatry? Local hospital seems to think not.
http://www.brentwoodgazette.co.uk/D...cancels-free/story-26074722-detail/story.html


what say you?
toeslayer

 

I have found the complete blocking of the NHS podiatry service by routine diabetic patients for years a complete anomaly.
As long as a low risk diabetic patient checks their own feet daily, there is no need for a podiatrist. Indeed, there is an element of handing over responsibility for foot health to an occasional visit to a podiatrist, instead of the patient being responsible for their own feet.
I am a private practitioner, and I think it is appalling that non-diabetics with foot problems have no chance of NHS treatment.

 

Nonsense. Good diabetic control is the mainstay for the tick box exercise for discharge in the NHS: "Just `cos you is diabetic, don`t mean you get free shuropudy". Patients seen in NHS are high risk, not just thjose with DM, Liz.

 

Sorry, Doogle, but that's how it is in my area health authority -they are criminally overworked/understaffed. Liz