Table II.

117/123 trusts responding admit patients with diabetic foot disease, with their response to two questions: ‘Who admits patients presenting with acute diabetic foot disease?’, and ‘Who would drain a diabetic foot abscess acutely?’.

Variable	n (%)
Department of admission, single team (n = 80)
Medicine/diabetes	53 (45)
Vascular	12 (10)
Orthopaedic surgery	7 (6)
General surgery	6 (5)
Other	2 (2)
Department of admission, multiple team (n = 37)
Medicine + vascular	16 (14)
Medicine + orthopaedic surgery	12 (10)
Medicine + others	9 (8)
Who drained the acute abscess
Orthopaedic surgery	61 (52)
Vascular surgery	47 (40)
General surgery	7 (6)
Other	2 (2)