Major goals

• Through prevention, screening, teaching, treatment of acute and chronic complications to contribute to improving the life quality of patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes, to avoid the development of diabetic complications and to prolong the patients’ lives.

• To strengthen the individual diabetes patient’s knowledge and self-care through individually arranged teaching and guidance, to enable the patient to manage his/her own disease working together on an equal footing with the cross-disciplinary treatment team.

• To involve the diabetes patient (and also perhaps relatives) in the treatment to the greatest possible extent, so that therapists and patient jointly set up individual treatment goals that include

• Goals for blood glucose and number of measurement
• HbA1c (the long-term test)
• Blood pressure
• Blood lipids
• Urine albumin
• Weight
• Diet
• Lifestyle
• Regulation of insulin