Evaluation of a model of integrated care for the identification and clinical management of high risk diabetic foot

INTERVENTION: A practice visit by the specialist diabetic footcare team to deliver an educational programme; provision of, and instruction in the use of, an objective means of neuropathy assessment (Semmes‐Weinstein monofilament); provision of referral guidelines and patient educational material. Control: current standard care. CONDITION: Diabetes ; Nutritional, Metabolic, Endocrine ; Unspecified diabetes mellitus PRIMARY OUTCOME: 1. Patients' attitudes regarding the value and importance of footcare; 2. Patients' footcare knowledge; 3. Healthcare professionals' footcare knowledge ; 4. Pattern of service utilisation SECONDARY OUTCOME: Not provided at time of registration INCLUSION CRITERIA: One thousand nine hundred and thirty nine people with diabetes aged over 18 years.