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Integrating diabetes prevention and management in primary healthcare is essential to improving outcomes for diabetes. It is one of the eight components of the World Health Organisation’s Global Diabetes Compact. However, global evaluations by WHO suggest a significant lack of healthcare professionals (HCPs) adequately trained to prevent, diagnose, and treat diabetes.
Many low-income countries suffer from a shortfall of qualified doctors, thus putting a heavy strain on remaining HCPs in the health ecosystem. The increased strain is often taken up by nurses, who, although more numerous, are rarely adequately trained for the challenges that they will face on the job. Nurses are uniquely placed to act as effective practitioners, health coaches, spokespersons, and knowledge brokers for people living with diabetes.
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