This guideline covers the care and treatment of adults (aged 18 and over) with type 1 diabetes.
This guideline updates and replaces the sections for adults in NICE guideline CG15.
In July 2016, recommendation 1.15.1 has been reworded to clarify the role of GPs in referring people for eye screening and also to add information on when this should happen.
Recommendations
This updated guideline includes new recommendations on:
- diagnosis
- structured education
- insulin therapy
- blood glucose management
- impaired awareness of hypoglycaemia
- managing complications of diabetes
Who is it for?
- Healthcare professionals that care for adults with diabetes
- Commissioners and providers of diabetes services
- Adults with type 1 diabetes, and their families and carers
Guideline development process
How we develop NICE guidelines
Your responsibility
The recommendations in this guideline represent the view of NICE, arrived at after careful consideration of the evidence available. When exercising their judgement, professionals are expected to take this guideline fully into account, alongside the individual needs, preferences and values of their patients or service users. The application of the recommendations in this guideline is not mandatory and the guideline does not override the responsibility of healthcare professionals to make decisions appropriate to the circumstances of the individual patient, in consultation with the patient and/or their carer or guardian.
Local commissioners and/or providers have a responsibility to enable the guideline to be applied when individual health professionals and their patients or service users wish to use it. They should do so in the context of local and national priorities for funding and developing services, and in light of their duties to have due regard to the need to eliminate unlawful discrimination, to advance equality of opportunity and to reduce health inequalities. Nothing in this guideline should be interpreted in a way that would be inconsistent with compliance with those duties.