Diabetes

Guidelines for specialist referrals:

• Newly diagnosed patient
   
• Diabetes in pregnancy
   
• Glycaemic control
   
• Hypoglycaemia
   
• Diabetic retinopathy
   
• Acute visual change
   
• Diabetic nephropathy
   
• High risk diabetic foot
   
• Diabetes-related painful peripheral neuropathy
   
• Diabetic foot ulceration
   
• Symptomatic peripheral vascular disease (in absence of ulceration)
   
• Hypertension
   
• Hyperlipidaemia
   
• Pre-pregnancy management
   
• Screening for Gestational Diabetes
   
• Pregnancy in women with pre-existing Type 1 or Type 2 Diabetes
   
• "Shared Care" for long-term management