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Diabetes and feet toolkit

New NDSS resource for health professionals

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We have released a new health professional resource Diabetes and feet: a practical toolkit for health professionals using the Australian diabetes-related foot disease guidelines.

Diabetes and feet toolkit

A practical toolkit for health professionals using the Australian diabetes-related foot disease guidelines.

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This toolkit is for health professionals using the Australian diabetes-related foot disease guidelines in daily practice.

The new guidelines and this toolkit are designed for health professionals and disciplines caring for people with diabetes-related foot disease and diabetes-related foot ulcers in secondary and tertiary health care settings in Australia.

The toolkit covers the guidelines:

  • prevention
  • wound classification
  • peripheral artery disease
  • infection
  • offloading
  • wound healing interventions

and includes:

  • an overview of each guideline
  • recommendations for each guideline
  • implementation and monitoring considerations
  • considerations for the Australian context
  • practical pathways for each guideline to help optimise the implementation of the recommendations.