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Program Services

The DCPNS Provides:

  • Diabetes expertise, including program planning and evaluation.
  • Standardized documentation, statistics keeping, and referral forms.
  • Guidelines for special populations (e.g., pregnancy, pediatrics, elderly residents with diabetes in long-term care facilities, and insulin pump patients) and specific complications/co-morbidities (e.g., hypertension, dyslipidemia, renal impairment, and foot problems).
  • Access to new knowledge and knowledge translation through newsletters/bulletins and annotated bibliographies, annual provincial and/or regional workshops, and facility or diabetes surveys.
  • Enhanced networking across and between programs and provider groups.
  • Provincial policy and procedures (including exams) for insulin dose adjustment and Diabetes Centre (DC) grants to support quality improvement initiatives.
  • Access to local, regional, and provincial diabetes data as well as data analysis support and reporting (see below—Managing Diabetes Data for Nova Scotia).

To view a graphic depicting program activities, please click here.