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Delays in getting to specialist care for people with diabetes and foot problems. What are the delays and how can we reduce them? A Position Statement from the ZAP Amputation group of FDUK

A crucial barrier to effective diabetic foot care is the delay in accessing specialist care.

22 Dec 2023

Zero All Preventable (ZAP) amputations: FDUK position statement on “missingness” and reducing major amputations in the acute diabetes foot pathway

The Foot in Diabetes UK Zero All Preventable (ZAP) Amputations group is dedicated to minimising the occurrence of preventable lower limb amputations.

14 Jun 2023

Why are some patients failing to engage with foot services earlier and have frequent hospital admissions and/or amputations?

Written by a senior podiatrist, consultant diabetologist and specialist diabetic psychologist all working in different Trusts

3 Oct 2022

What’s it really like? The lived experience of patients and their families following partial foot amputation secondary to diabetes mellitus

23 Nov 2021

Introducing FDUK’s Lower Limb Amputation Prevention Guidance V 2.0

1 Oct 2021

ACT NOW! Reducing amputations during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond

22 Jun 2021

The times they are a-changin

26 Mar 2021

The level of training in microbiological sampling for toe amputations in diabetic foot disease: a survey of UK vascular trainees

26 Mar 2021

At a glance factsheet: Diabetic Charcot arthropathy

Essential information for recognising and managing this potentially disabling condition.

2 Mar 2021

To halve the number of major amputations in people living with diabetes, “ACTNOW”

Reducing major amputations: iDEAL recommendations to improve foot care and education.

18 Nov 2020

Foot in Diabetes UK and the COVID-19 lower-limb amputation prevention guidance challenge

30 Jun 2020

Finding Your Feet: supporting amputees in association with the NHS

27 Mar 2020

Do you refer all newly occurring foot ulcers for specialist assessment within one working day?

Better outcomes: the need for early specialist assessment of foot ulcers.

7 Feb 2020

The use of Sodic-Salt DNA fragments in the progression of wounds healing in diabetic foot: a case control study

1 Nov 2019

Editorial: Food, fat and feet

Supporting dietary change in primary care is challenging. Understanding the role of fats in a healthy diet may be key.

16 Oct 2019

The multidisciplinary rehabilitation of patients after lower-limb amputation

27 Sep 2019

Evaluating a removable knee-high cast walker within the diabetic foot pathway

27 Sep 2019

Fast-track pathway: an easy-to-use tool to reduce delayed referral and amputations in diabetic patients with foot ulceration

17 Jun 2019