Key result
General practice nurses deliver crucial ongoing postnatal care for women with diabetes.
Why the study?
Women with diabetes or gestational diabetes mellitus have ongoing requirements for maternity care that continue past pregnancy and birth.
General practice nurses play an important role in providing ongoing postnatal care for women with diabetes or gestational diabetes.
Supports expanded general practice nurse roles in postnatal diabetes care; extends UK guidelines but leaves optimal models open for prospective trials.
Practice nurses who work with GPs and other healthcare professionals can provide support and ongoing postnatal care for women with diabetes or gestational diabetes mellitus in pregnancy, whose requirements for excellent maternity care continue past pregnancy and birth. In this article, a summary of the effects of diabetes and gestational diabetes is provided, the importance of optimal postnatal care of the woman with diabetes is emphasised, and the challenges to providing that care are discussed with reference to the UK guidelines.
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Mcchlery et al. (2025) studied this question. General practice nurses play a crucial role in delivering ongoing postnatal care for women with diabetes, addressing their continued maternity care needs after birth.
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