An introduction to integrated care and diabetes integrated care

Modern health care is a wonderful thing. We have medications, investigations, procedures, equipment and health-care approaches that can do more than ever before. Half of the “years of life” gained 1950–1995 were due to medical intervention , and benefits have continued further over the last two decades. However, the knowledge and expertise required to provide these interventions is so vast, that it requires different degrees of specialisation, increasingly grouped into a range of “services.” Efficiencies have been introduced through the centralisation of the more expensive equipment and expertise into dedicated buildings including hospitals.