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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.

A feasibility study to assess use of a pressure mat to obtain diabetes plantar foot pressure measurements in individuals with low risk of foot complications

Foot problems related to diabetes are associated with significant morbidity and mortality and are costly to the health service.

The four-week delay: are we letting our patients down?

What is the rationale for the use of the ‘four-week rule’?

How social determinants of health can affect diabetic foot disease and how policy and community development may be used to address outcomes within the Scottish context

This paper examines social deprivation in the Scottish context and evaluates how social determinants of health can impact people with diabetic foot ulcers

The relevance of skin tones in the diabetic foot

It is important for clinicians to understand the implications of skin tone in diabetic foot ulcers as it can influence various aspects of wound care

Bilateral Charcot neuroarthropathy following successive surgical arterial revascularisation to both legs in a patient with diabetes — an interesting case history

We report the first case of a person with diabetes who had revascularisation surgery performed to both legs independently.

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.

Digest: “Mind the gap” ulcer offloading: International guidelines good, implementation poor

Journal club: Diabetes and foot disease – walking not running

Comment on a notable recent paper. Trends in the incidence of hospitalisation for diabetic foot disease.

Diabetes and foot disease: Walking not running

Somewhere in the delivery of foot care, we are not translating the results seen in research studies into overall improvement at the population level.

Increasing rates of diabetic foot hospitalisations in Australia

Age-adjusted rates of hospitalisations for diabetic foot disease have increased from 20.8 to 30.5 per 1000 person-years over a decade.

Diabetes Distilled: Putting our best foot forward in motivating foot self-care

Low adherence to foot self-care: a consequence of different patient and practitioner perspectives?

The prevalence of symptomatic venous thromboembolism in patients requiring total contact casting for neuropathic foot complications

This study aimed to investigate the rate of symptomatic VTE in neuropathic patients with a TCC.

Phage therapy for diabetic foot infection

The available evidence suggests that phage therapy is safe and effective for the treatment of wound infections

Depression — the ‘elephant in the room’ for the under-utilisation of foot self-care in diabetes?

Depression is well known to co-exist in many people with diabetes - especially those who have suffered diabetes-related complications

2022 Update on the National Diabetes Foot Care Audit

The National Diabetes Foot Care Audit (NDFA) is part of the family of audits undertaken as part of the NDA of England and Wales

The dressings evolution: foundations, fads and fiction

Six members of the FDUK executive committee to respond to six questions about wound dressings

Interactive case study: Problems with the diabetic foot

Understanding the diabetic foot: causes, prevention and management.

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