Clinical management. Where medicine meets management. Teach to his own.
A course developed by an Isle of Wight diabetes consultant teaches patients to instruct other patients on self-management of the condition. Supporters say the training is more relevant to diabetes than the expert patient programme. Health professionals' wariness of the scheme has taken its toll on take-up of the service.
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Ann
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ann.dix@emap.com
D003920:Diabetes Mellitus; D006801:Humans; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000379:methods*; D010379:Peer Group; D012648:Self Care; D020377:Self Efficacy; D006113:United Kingdom