Table 6. Patients' referral characteristics.

How often in the last 12 months did you refer patients with the following conditions to a specialist tertiary multi-disciplinary foot care team?

	Never	Very rarely	Rarely	Sometimes	Often	Very often	Always
Diabetic ulceration	4.5%	2.7%	5.9%	20.3%	11.3%	24.3%	31.1%
Deep foot ulceration (probing a tendon, joint, or bone)	4.1%	4.5%	16.7%	9.9%	16.7%	32.4%	15.8%
Ulcer not reducing in size after 4 weeks	4.1%	14.4%	5.4%	9.9%	23.4%	26.6%	16.2%
Ulcers in patients with absent foot pulses	5.0%	3.6%	5.0%	13.1%	30.2%	26.6%	16.7%
Ulcers with ascending cellulitis	5.0%	5.0%	6.8%	11.7%	21.2%	38.7%	11.7%
Suspected Charcot’s neuroarthropathy	18.9%	5.9%	8.1%	8.6%	18.0%	26.6%	14.0%