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This week has seen the publication of a National Diabetes Audit (click here for an executive summary) that has been reported that in some areas less than 10% of patients with diabetes are having all the necessary vital tests to pick up any possible complications from diabetes. Click here for the full story on BBC News. The nine tests involved are: BMI - to check persons weight HbA1c blood test - to check persons average sugar level over the last six weeks Blood pressure measurement Cholesterol blood test Kidney function blood test Kidney function urine test Retinal screening test Foot examination Smoking history The average across England and Wales is 50%. Kings Medical Practice has 489 patients over 16 yrs of age with diabetes and of these 367 had all nine tests - that is 75% and is significantly better than the national average. Our performance in this area is pretty good, but we would like to do better. We have various systems in place to alert patients to tests and examinations

This is the 100 th blog I have written since I first started blogging on the 4 th January, 2010 - which is just under one blog every two weeks! I have checked some other random numbers from the blog which are really, really interesting! 13,482 total page views of this blog 1,276 views in total from the USA 860 new patients since I started writing the blog 379 views of the most popular blog - electronic prescribing written in August 2010 90% of users use Windows 82 times that Pinderfields A&E has been closed to 999 ambulances in 2011 28 views from Turkey - the blog really does have an international readership! 10 trainees have been at the practice since Jan 2010 4 comments have been posted about the blog 2 babies born to doctors of the practice AND 1 new building!

Last week the Government launched the first ever bowel cancer awareness campaign and over the next nine weeks television, radio and newspaper adverts will encourage people to be clear about the symptoms of bowel cancer and to visit the surgery if you have any concerns. You can watch the TV adverts and listen to the radio ads again by clicking here . And clicking here will take you to links to the Beating Bowel Cancer website. At the local GP Commissioning Group we have discussed this and raised awareness of this campaign with local GPs so we are all ready and prepared! But remember the slogan - 'if you have had blood in your poo or looser poo for three weeks - we want to know!'