Diabetes care for the most vulnerable in society – the views of professionals working in care homes and domiciliary care using focus group methodology

Abstract

Using focus group methods, we report that the main concerns of health care professionals working in care homes and in the domiciliary sector are as follows:

Poor communication with all other health care agencies, including hospital, primary care and mental services

The need for training, specifically in diabetes and dementia

Currently available e-learning was not found to be useful

Poor support from the specialist diabetes team