Table 2.

Five‐year incidences of first ever and recurrent diabetes related foot ulcers expressed as annual incidence/1000 persons living with diabetes

	Years			P‐value*
	2003–2007	2008–2012	2013–2017
QOF diabetes numbers mean/year for each 5 year period	10664	13940	16051	0.001
First ever ulcers all in a 5‐year period	543	604	493
Incidence of first ulcer mean/year over 5 years	11.1 (1.1)	12.5 (1.4)	6.1 (1.5)	0.0006
Recurrent ulcers all in a 5‐year period	382	570	614
Incidence of recurrent ulcers average/year over 5 years	7.3 (1.2)	8.4 (1.7)	7.7 (2.4)	0.35

^*Significance levels shown are unpaired t‐tests 2003 to 2007 vs. 2013 to 2017. Ulcer incidence expressed as mean (sd).