TY - JOUR T1 - A regional quality improvement project to improve the standards of care for people with diabetes who are on maintenance haemodialysis JF - Future Healthcare Journal JO - Future Healthc J SP - s45 LP - s46 DO - 10.7861/fhj.7.1.s45 VL - 7 IS - Suppl 1 AU - Apexa Kuverji AU - June James AU - Robert Gregory AU - Andrew Frankel AU - James Burton Y1 - 2020/02/01 UR - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/7/Suppl_1/s45.abstract N2 - People with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) caused by diabetes account for 29.4% of people on maintenance haemodialysis (MHDx). When taking into account those with diabetes not causing ESRD, this figure rises up to 40% in some units.1 People with diabetes and kidney disease are at a particularly high risk of complications such as non-traumatic lower extremity amputation, cardiovascular events and death, with overall survival on MHDx in people with diabetes being approximately half that of their non-diabetic peers (3.7 vs 7.0 years).2–4 In 2016, guidelines were published by the Joint British Diabetes Societies in conjunction with the Renal Association, aimed at … ER -