Diabetes Prevention Program Resources For Pharmacists

Pharmacists are seen as a trusted part of a care team within their local communities. Positioned uniquely in communities with frequent patient encounters, pharmacists can help support patients in preventing type 2 diabetes. Preventive care practices such as vaccinations, smoking cessation, and blood pressure management are already a part of many pharmacy’s program offerings. Knowing how to screen, refer, and enroll patients into a National Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP), or even offering the program in-house, can add to a pharmacy’s program options for the people they serve.

NC Diabetes Prevention and Management Learning Collaborative

This learning collaborative will support pharmacy staff with resources to create and maintain robust, quality, and sustainable DPP and DSMES programs to assist patients and community members with prediabetes and type 2 diabetes.

Join us for the next learning collaborative:
March 18, 2025, at 11:00am

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CDC’s DPP Action Guide for Community Pharmacists.

Pharmacist can be a valuable partner in the efforts to expand and support the National Diabetes Prevention Program; the evidence-based lifestyle change program that is proven to lower a patient’s chance of developing type 2 diabetes by 58%. Members of the pharmacy workforce can help prevent type 2 diabetes by:

  • Raising awareness of prediabetes and the National DPP.
  • Screening, testing for prediabetes, referring and enrolling people in the National DPP.
  • Delivering the National DPP lifestyle change program.

View the CDC’s DPP Action Guide for Community Pharmacists: Rx for the National Diabetes Prevention Program

Learn how pharmacists can be a resource for patients to help prevent type 2 diabetes: