There are more than 2.4 million Canadians living with diabetes, of which 1.2 million of them live in Ontario (MHLTC). Diabetes is the leading cause of non-traumatic lower limb amputation in Canadian adults, associated with approximately 70% of amputations performed in hospital. Compared to the general population, Canadian adults with diabetes are over 20 times more likely to undergo non-traumatic lower limb amputations, 85% of which are preceded by a foot ulcer (PHAC, 2011 and Singh et al.,2005). According to a recent report (CDA, 2016) commissioned by the Canadian Diabetes Association (CDA), of the 1.53 million people with diabetes in Ontario, between 16,600 and 27,600 were expected to have a diabetes foot ulcer in 2015. Of these, nearly 2,000 were expected to need to have a lower limb amputated as a result of their condition and those amputations are associated with almost 800 premature deaths. In Ontario, diabetic foot ulcers (DFU) currently impose direct health-care costs of between $320-400 million and indirect costs of between $35-60 million (Hopkins et al.,2015).