A roadmap for integrating mental health and diabetes services
It is well recognised that people with long-term conditions, including diabetes, have higher rates of mental disorders and disease-specific psychological burden. There is an increasing appreciation internationally that many people requiring health care have multiple long-term conditions, whereas health-care systems have generally evolved to care for single conditions. A recent study investigated the overall burden of combinations of diabetes and other long-term conditions in England.1 In this analysis, people with both type 1 and type 2 diabetes and a mental disorder (depression or schizophrenia) had higher numbers of both years lived-with and years of life lost to these conditions.
