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Community pharmacy teams are expected to advise the public about diabetes. NICE guideline NG102 ‘Community pharmacies: promoting health and wellbeing’ (August 2018), says community pharmacies should be a source of advice and education.4

“When someone uses pharmacy services to manage a long-term condition, use this as an opportunity to advise them on how to improve their general health and wellbeing. For example, follow recommendations on advice and education in NICE’s guidelines on diabetes in adults (type 1, and type 2) and diabetes in children and young people (type 1 and type 2).”

This includes offering behavioural support. For people identified as being at risk of developing diabetes but who do not yet have it, three core changes are recommended: to eat well, exercise more, and to lose weight if that is a factor.5

Obesity is considered a key driving force in the increase of type 2 diabetes; being overweight or obese increases the risk of developing diabetes five-fold. In Wales, where 58% of adults are considered overweight or obese, diabetes levels increased 46 per cent over the past 10 years.6

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