Ontario is taking important steps that will enable more people with diabetes to live healthy lives, while reducing the number of people who develop the disease.

The province is announcing targets to ensure that Ontario's Diabetes Strategy is producing results for Ontarians. The targets include:

• Attaching all people with diabetes to a primary health care provider

• Ensuring that 80 per cent of people with diabetes, aged 18 and older, have all three diabetes tests completed.

To help meet these targets, the province is moving forward with a number of new initiatives that will further help people manage and prevent diabetes, including:

• Creating 51 new diabetes education teams across the province

• Expanding chronic kidney condition services, including additional clinic visits and increased dialysis treatment at home

• Creating up to 14 regional coordination centres to help better organize and manage local diabetes programs

• Expanding diabetes care and prevention resources, including new education kits for newly-diagnosed patients, community-based prevention programs for high-risk groups, enhanced services through EatRight Ontario and a new Stand Up to Diabetes website.