title: From past experiences to the promotion of current resources.
abstract: This paper notes the development of diabetes nurse specialists and recommends the creation of nurse specialist diabetic clinics. It considers the current manpower resources and how they may be used in the provision of diabetes education and care. Experience of training lay advisors is reported.
mesh_terms: D003479:Curriculum; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D009720:Nurse Clinicians / Q000193:education; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000379:methods*