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Diabetes inpatient and hospital care
Over the last two decades we’ve seen great improvements in diabetes inpatient care. However, we still hear that people living with diabetes feel unsafe in hospital and it’s not hard to understand why:
Nearly 1 in 3 drug charts for people with least one medication error.
35% of people with diabetes in hospital are treated with insulin, and of those in 2019, almost two fifths had at least one insulin error on their drug chart.
On the day of the National Diabetes Inpatient Audit in 2019, 3.6% of people in hospital with type 1 diabetes had developed a hospital acquired diabetic ketoacidosis, a life-threatening condition.
We can and must do better for people with diabetes in hospital.
Use the following resources and tools to improve inpatient and hospital care for people with diabetes.
Everyone with diabetes has access to a range of healthcare professionals who can care for their complex needs. From their admission to discharge, they know they can contact the diabetes inpatient team if needed and will be cared for regardless of what day of the week it is.
No one with diabetes feels unsafe in hospital. Everyone with diabetes in hospital feels confident that those caring for them understand their needs. And healthcare professionals receive the training they need to offer the best care possible.
People with diabetes know what care to expect in hospital and feel able to ask for it. People are able to self-manage their diabetes where appropriate and have access to the right food at the right time during their stay.
Systems are in place that allow the diabetes inpatient team to identify people with diabetes and assess their risk, responding to those most in need. So that people with diabetes experience fewer harms
People with diabetes experience fewer harms in hospital because when errors occur, they are reported and action taken so they don't happen again. The diabetes inpatient team has processes in place to make sure mistakes are owned, understood and managed by the clinical teams involved.
Sanofi has provided financial sponsorship to support Diabetes UK’s Improving Inpatient Care Programme. Sanofi has no editorial control over the content or the delivery of the programme.
