Supporting Primary Care-based Prevention and Early Intervention

Primary health care proactively and proficiently works with patients and their families
to reduce diabetes risk and improve disease management

Improving primary care based prevention and management of diabetes is a key component of the Let’s Beat Diabetes (LBD). LBD will build on the foundations of the Chronic Care Management programme (CCM) to:

• Move the primary care focus ‘upstream’ in the diabetes progression and improve primary care based prevention, early identification, patient education and self management
• Ensure greater commitment to the NZ guidelines for screening, post diagnosis education and structured care, and
  investigate family/whanau approach as a means to improving management of disease and family risk.

To facilitate this, it has been agreed that the primary care component of LBD will be implemented by Counties Manukau District Health Board (CMDHB) Primary Care via its existing relationships and governance structures, with minor modifications to encompass the increased breadth of LBD. As a consequence, a new governance structure will be established and extra resources provided to support the extensive development work required to develop the LBD concepts. Responsibility for the national Diabetes Get Checked programme has also moved into the CCM team.