Nurs Stand. 2015 Sep 09;30(2):63. doi: 10.7748/ns.30.2.63.s45.
Nursing standard (Royal College of Nursing (Great Britain) : 1987)
Carol Davis
PMID: 26350873 DOI: 10.7748/ns.30.2.63.s45
Around half of diabetes specialist nurses are expected to retire in the next decade, and one third of hospitals now have no specific diabetes inpatient specialist nurses. Yet the NHS is not recruiting enough of these clinicians to keep pace with the growing numbers diagnosed with diabetes - now increasing by more than 100,000 annually.