Georgia – training initiatives on tackling diabetes: NCD stories from the field

Overview

Throughout 2021, eight clinics in Georgia took part in the second phase of a project to improve primary health care for people with diabetes, training trainers and staff in use of medical audits to assess the quality of diabetes care, developing courses in integrated people-centred management for health-care staff, and establishing clinical pathways, protocols and diabetes registers.

The project showed that primary health care professionals are keen to use their own data to improve quality of care, working with more standardized procedures and in a more integrated way. The roles of nurses and the education of people with diabetes has become increasingly important for patients managing their condition.