The National Diabetes Prevention Programme

The National Diabetes Prevention Programme.

Notwithstanding the human and financial implications of diabetes, we are concerned with the selective use of evidence to support the National Diabetes Prevention Programme. The editorial by Sood et al describes trials, which offered expensive, intensive interventions to participants selected on strict and extensive criteria with stringent methods to maintain participant engagement.1,2 Trials de...

Time to question the NHS diabetes prevention programme.

A new Public Health England report on the rising prevalence of type 2 diabetes proposes targeting people with non-diabetic hyperglycaemia (defined as an HbA1c concentration of 42-47 mmol/mol) with behavioural interventions (diet and exercise). 1 Action for this group (10.7% of the adult population) is to be the cornerstone of the NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme, which will be rolled out natio...

India needs a national COPD prevention and control programme.

Rh prevention: a report and analysis of a national programme.

A nation-wide Rh prevention programme was started in Finland in 1969. Before that, a control series of approximately 1000 Rh-negative mothers giving birth to an Rh-positive child was collected to estimate the number ofmothers with antibodies at either three, six, or nine months post partum. During the threeand-a-half year period altogether 14,980 Rh-negative patients were given 250 ,tg of anti-...

NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme in England: formative evaluation of the programme in early phase implementation

OBJECTIVES Evaluation of the demonstrator phase and first wave roll-out of the National Health Service (NHS) Diabetes Prevention Programme (DPP) in England. To examine: (1) intervention design, provision and fidelity assessment procedures; (2) risk assessment and recruitment pathways and (3) data collection for monitoring and evaluation. To provide recommendations informing decision makers on p...