Table 6.

 Estimated total incremental resource impact of adopting policies for intensive control of blood glucose and blood pressure, England, 2001

Resource	Incremental No per year	Estimated No of patients seen per session	No of staff in whole time equivalent posts required*
General practice nurse visits	339 348	8	92
Specialist nurse visits	927 507	6	336
General practice clinic visits per year	1 211 103	18	146
Doctor at clinic	611 386	12	148
Hospital inpatient days (at 85% bed occupancy rate)	−342 921	—	−1105 beds

^*Based on each whole time equivalent post providing 10 sessions per week over 46 weeks. In the category “general practice nurse visits,” for example, it is assumed that 92 additional general practice nurses would be required to provide 10 sessions a week over 46 weeks per year, and see on average 8 patients per session.