Diabetes UK, London, UK.
Ipswich Hospital, East Suffolk and North East Essex NHS Foundation Trust, Colchester, UK.
Diabet Med. 2021 Jan;38(1):e14442. doi: 10.1111/dme.14442. Epub 2020 Dec 3.
Inpatient care for people with diabetes can and must be improved. The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the way care is delivered across the UK. Diabetes UK needed to understand how inpatient care for people with diabetes has been affected and to identify opportunities, areas of concerns and recommendations for the future.
We interviewed 28 healthcare professionals and hospital teams from across the UK to find out about their experiences of delivering inpatient diabetes care during the first peak of the COVID-19 pandemic.
We found that disruption to inpatient diabetes services created positive environments and opportunities for new ways of working, but in the minority, impacted on the quality of care clinicians felt they were able to deliver.
It is important that these positive ways of working be maintained and as a result of these experiences we have outlined urgent recommendations for the challenging winter months ahead.
改善糖尿病患者的住院治疗。新冠疫情已经影响了英国各地的医疗服务提供方式。英国糖尿病协会需要了解糖尿病患者的住院治疗受到了哪些影响，并确定未来的机会、关注领域和建议。
我们采访了英国各地的 28 名医疗保健专业人员和医院团队，了解他们在新冠疫情第一次高峰期期间提供住院糖尿病护理的经验。
我们发现，住院糖尿病服务的中断为新的工作方式创造了积极的环境和机会，但在少数情况下，影响了临床医生认为他们能够提供的护理质量。
保持这些积极的工作方式非常重要，因此，我们根据这些经验为即将到来的充满挑战的冬季提出了紧急建议。
