Quality Standards for Diabetes Care Toolkit

What the quality statement means for each audience

Service providers ensure local arrangements that provide information to women of childbearing age with diabetes on pre-conception glycaemic control and any risks including medication that may harm an unborn child, and ensure women with diabetes planning a pregnancy are offered pre-conception care, and those not planning a pregnancy are offered advice on contraception.
Health care professionals ensure women with diabetes of childbearing age are provided with information on pre-conception glycaemic control and on any risks including medication that may harm an unborn child, and are offered pre-conception care if they are planning a pregnancy or offered advice on contraception if they are not planning a pregnancy.
Planners and funders ensure services are in place to provide pre-conception advice for women with diabetes of childbearing age, and offer pre-conception care for women with diabetes planning a pregnancy. Advice on contraception should be provided to those not planning a pregnancy.
Women of childbearing age who have diabetes are regularly given advice about the benefits of controlling their blood glucose before a pregnancy, and any risks such as medication that might harm an unborn baby. Women with diabetes who are planning a pregnancy are offered care leading up to the pregnancy. Women not planning a pregnancy are offered advice on contraception.