Health practitioner role and diabetes prevention at the practice | |
What is your role at the practice and what do you do in relation to diabetes prevention and management? | |
Who provides diabetes prevention mostly in this practice? | |
How important is diabetes prevention in primary care? | |
How do you/your practice deal with a new pre-diabetic blood result? | |
Discussing and dealing with heightened risk of type 2 diabetes in consultations | |
Do you think the language you use to describe risk is important? | |
Do you think there are any barriers to providing diabetes prevention advice during a consultation? | |
Do you tell all patients if they have pre-diabetes? Are there certain groups, such patients aged over 85, in which you would not disclose a pre-diabetic HbA1c? | |
Do you approach risk explanation the same in all patients eg. education/age? | |
What type of information do you provide when first discussing heightened risk? |