The DAFNE trial commenced in February 2000 and was completed at the end of July 2001. The trial had created a lot of interest from healthcare professionals around the country.
In order for the DAFNE approach to be successfully transferred to other diabetes units required the development of an additional training course for healthcare professionals on how to deliver the DAFNE course to patients and how to introduce DAFNE into their service.
Diabetes UK provided the DAFNE group with additional funding to enable the 3 DAFNE centres to develop and pilot a training course for healthcare professionals between July and December 2001.
The national roll-out pilot
In 2002, the Department of Health Expert Patient Programme provided the DAFNE group with £500,000 to perform an evaluated roll-out of DAFNE to an additional 7 UK diabetes units.
The new centres involved in the roll-out were:
| • | Addenbrooke’s | ||||
| • | Central Middlesex | ||||
| • | Derby | ||||
| • | Leicester | ||||
| • | Northampton | ||||
| • | Nottingham | ||||
| • | Scarborough & Bridlington | ||||
This roll-out showed that it is possible for diabetes teams from a wide variety of secondary care settings to initiate and sustain a high quality education programme which fulfils the objectives of NICE and the Diabetes NSF implementation plan.
"The job satisfaction I get from teaching DAFNE makes the rest of my job worthwhile"