The Diabetes Action Plan (Scottish Government,2006) set a target that all areas should have a record of ethnicity for over80% of patients on the register by the end of 2008.However, A report by the National Resource Centre forEthnic Minority Health (NRCEMH) describes the prevalence of diabetes amongethnic minority groups in Glasgow and reports that diabetes prevalence wasparticularly high among Pakistani people see:http://www.nrcemh.nhsscotland.com/pdfs/Full%20Diabetes%20Report.pdf.Also, a study of diabetes among ethnic minorities inTayside NHS Board area found that the prevalence of diabetes among South Asianswas almost twice as high as that in the non-South Asian population see:http://www.chs.med.ed.ac.uk/phs/research/Retrocoding%20final%20report.pdf,table 3.6, page 30.The ScottishPublic Health Observatory (ScotPHO) website...