Empowerment, diabetes and the National Service Framework: A systematic review

Henshaw, Lorraine

Abstract

Over the last few years new policies to modernise the NHS have emphasised the importance of the role of the individual within health care. The National Service Framework (NSF) for diabetes’ standard 3 (Department of Health, 2001a) is concerned with empowering people with diabetes and sets out a framework to achieve this and to encourage them to become the principal care givers. The NSF for diabetes recommends the use of some key interventions: structured models of education, personalised care plans and patient-held or accessible records to facilitate individual empowerment. If healthcare professionals are to meet these standards and aid the empowerment of individuals then evidence is needed that such interventions actually work and do not just instruct and dictate based upon the wants and needs of the healthcare professional rather than those of the individual. A systematic review was undertaken to examine the interventions that have been identified by the NSF for diabetes as providing empowerment for individuals with diabetes. This article presents and discusses the results of the systematic review.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Apr 1, 2006
• Deposit Date: Feb 4, 2025
• Journal: Journal of Diabetes Nursing
• Print ISSN: 1368-1109
• Electronic ISSN: 2517-7753
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 10
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 128-135
• Publisher URL: https://diabetesonthenet.com/journal-diabetes-nursing/empowerment-diabetes-and-the-national-service-framework-a-systematic-review/