According to the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) global guidelines (www.idf.org), standard diabetes care include the delivery of culturally sensitive care, cultivation of relationship between care providers and diabetes patients, offer of annual surveillance, goal setting on care plans and targets, adherence to protocol, provision of access to patient-centred care using a multidisciplinary team, establishment of a registry for recall, provision of telephone contact and patient support group and a quality assurance and improvement program. Comprehensive care includes all components of standard of care together with access of diabetes patients to their own data and decision support.