A structured patient education programmes for patients with Diabetes has been identified by Commissioners as an area where there is a need for a change of service, to ensure compliance with the National Service Framework for Diabetes. NHS North Staffordshire Clinical Commissioning Group intends to provide a structured patient education programme for people over the age of 18 with Diabetes. It is envisaged that the provider will educate approximately 30 type 1 diabetes patients and 750 type 2 diabetes patients per year in order to empower and inform them about their condition, improve self-management, reduce crisis management and deterioration in health & reduce visits to GPs, Practice Nurses and missed appointments. Our main requirements are for a high quality service for patients that is equitable, efficient, responsive and affordable that contributes to the health and well being of patients. Appropriate consultation will be required to discover whether a patient has developed any other symptoms associated with disease progression and side effects of treatment. The Provider will need to collect detailed information that can be used for audit purposes and that we can use for monitoring the service. The provider will be required to submit all information reasonably requested by North Staffordshire Clinical Commissioning Group to enable this monitoring to take place. A detailed Service Specification has been written which explains exactly what is required from this Service.