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The Alphabet Strategy

The ABC of reducing diabetes complications

Diabetes and Endocrinology Centre, George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust, College Street, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, CV10 7DJ, UK, vinod.patel@ geh-tr.wmids.nhs.uk

John Morrissey

We have no cure for diabetes but as the recently published National Service Framework for Diabetes: Standards notes `with the support of high quality healthcare, people with diabetes have the potential to live long lives free of the devastating complications suffered by previous generations`.¹ An earlier NSF, that for Coronary Heart Disease, observes that `excellence requires that important, simple things are done right all the time`.² Exactly the same maxim can be applied to diabetes care. Vinod Patel and John Morrissey outline their Alphabet Strategy — a condensed but simple mnemonic to help them get seven important, simple things right:

The British Journal of Diabetes & Vascular Disease, Vol. 2, No. 1, 58-59 (2002)
DOI: 10.1177/14746514020020010701


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