Ontario Standing Up To Diabetes

McGuinty Government Making Progress on Diabetes Strategy

Ontario is taking important steps that will enable more people with diabetes to live healthy lives, while reducing the number of people who develop the disease.The province is announcing targets to ensure that Ontario’s Diabetes Strategy is producing results for Ontarians. The targets include:

• Attaching all people with diabetes to a primary health care provider

• Ensuring that 80 per cent of people with diabetes, aged 18 and older, have all three diabetes tests completed.

To help meet these targets, the province is moving forward with a number of new initiatives that will further help people manage and prevent diabetes, including:

• Creating 51 new diabetes education teams across the province

• Expanding chronic kidney condition services, including additional clinic visits and increased dialysis treatment at home

• Creating up to 14 regional coordination centres to help better organize and manage local diabetes programs

• Expanding diabetes care and prevention resources, including new education kits for newly-diagnosed patients, community-based prevention programs for high-risk groups, enhanced services through EatRight Ontario and a new Stand Up to Diabetes website.

QUICK FACTS

• There are already 261 diabetes education teams helping 310,000 Ontarians.
• Eleven of the new diabetes education teams will be located in Aboriginal communities.
• Only 34 per cent of people with diabetes receive all three recommended tests: cholesterol, a retinal eye exam and the HbA1C test within the recommended guideline period.

LEARN MORE

• Find out more about diabetes.
• Find your local branch of the Canadian Diabetes Association.
• Ontario Diabetes Strategy

CONTACTS

Ivan Langrish
Minister’s Office
416-326-3986

Wendy Vincent
Ministry of Health Promotion, Minister’s Office
416-326-8497

David Jensen
Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care
416-314-6197

Julie Rosenberg
Ministry of Health Promotion, Communications
416-326-4833

Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care
www.ontario.ca/health