Integrated Diabetes Care

Experiences of integrating diabetes care 

In 2016 and 2017, we wrote a series of blogs about the team’s experience of integrating diabetes care in Oxfordshire. The blogs shed a light on practicalities of integrating care and provide an overview of proposed improvements, examples of tools used, and personal statements of those involved in service change. The insiders’ views come from Mr Tony O’Malley (a patient representative on the project), Dr Stephen Attwood (a GP), Dr Rustam Rea (a consultant in diabetes), and Mr David Waterton (an IT manager).

Publications

• Tan GD, Kozlowska O, Rea RD, 'Delivery and organization of diabetes care: integrated care' 

Medicine 50(11) (2022)

DOI: 10.1016/j.mpmed.2022.08.010

• Tan G D, Kozlowska O, Rea R D, 'Integrated care and diabetes: challenges, principles and opportunities'
  Clinics in Integrated Care 4 (2021)
  ISSN 2666-8696

• Kozlowska O, Attwood S, Lumb A, Tan GD, Rea R, 'Population health management in diabetes care: combining clinical audit, risk stratification, and multidisciplinary virtual clinics in a community setting to improve diabetes care in a geographically defined population. An integrated diabetes care pilot in the North East Locality, Oxfordshire, UK'
  International Journal of Integrated Care x (2020)
  ISSN: 1568-4156 eISSN: 1568-4156

• Rea RD, Lumb A, Tan GD, Owen K, Thanabalasingham G, Latif A, Swan P, Scott J, Jones D, Gillott E, Honour Smith R, ‘Using data to improve the care of people with diabetes across Oxfordshire’
  Practical Diabetes 37(1) (2020) pp.27-31
  eISSN:2047-2900

• Kozlowska O, Seda G, Rea R, 'Leadership for integrated care: a case study'
  Leadership in Health Services (2020)
  ISSN: 1751-1879

• Tan GD, Kozlowska O, Rea RD, 'Delivery and organization of diabetes care: integrated care'
  Medicine 47 (2) (2019) pp.127-130
  ISSN: 1357-3039 eISSN: 1878-9390

• Kozlowska O, Rea R, 'Local enhanced services: Is a lack of outcome data affecting diabetes care?'
  Diabetes & Primary Care 20 (3) (2018) pp.121-125
  ISSN: 1466-8955 eISSN: 1466-8955

• Kozlowska O, Lumb A, Tan GD, Rea R, 'Barriers and facilitators to integrating primary and specialist healthcare in the United Kingdom: a narrative literature review'
  Future Hospital Journal 5 (1) (2018) pp.64-80
  ISSN: 2055-3323 eISSN: 2055-3323

• Kozlowska O, Solomons L, Cuzner D, Ahmed S, McManners J, Tan GD, Lumb A, Rea R, 'Diabetes care: closing the gap between mental and physical health'
  British Journal of General Practice 67 (663) (2017) pp.471-472
  ISSN: 0960-1643

Posters

• Integrating diabetes care: the challenges to service transformation (Diabetes UK Professional Conference, 2017) link

• Population-based management of diabetes care: Approach and solutions used in the North-East Locality (Oxfordshire, UK) Pilot (International Conference on Integrated Care, 2018, Utrecht, Netherlands) link

• Piloting a collaborative approach:diabetes and psychological comorbidity in primary care (RCPsych International Congress, 2018) link

Contact us: okozlowska@brookes.ac.uk