Diabetic care ‘far below’ EU standards

TREATMENT and support services for diabetes sufferers in Ireland are inadequate and fall far below the standard of other EU countries, a top medic has claimed.

Diabetic care ‘far below’ EU standards

Senior consultant at Dublin’s St James’s Hospital Professor John Nolan launched a blistering attack on the Government’s handling of the health system, branding facilities poorly resourced and underfunded.

He made the comments ahead of a two-day conference on diabetes, which started in Dublin today and will include presentations from a range of international specialists.

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