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NEWS
Education for
deaf community
Educators at Leicester Diabetes Centre
(LDC) have collaborated with Greater
Manchester Integrated Care Partnership
to adapt the DESMOND diabetes selfmanagement
education programme for the
D/deaf population.
Established in 2003, DESMOND is a range
of group-based and digital self-management
programmes grounded in evidence and
developed by LDC for people with or at
risk of Type 2 diabetes, and other longterm conditions.
The SignHealth report (2014) showed that
BSL users had worse health outcomes than
the general population with 56% of people
with known diabetes had high fasting blood
sugar levels, suggesting that their diabetes
was not being properly controlled.
The aim of the collaboration with Greater
Manchester Integrated Care Partnership was
to identify what adaptations are needed to
deliver the DESMOND programme for the
D/deaf community to help them become
more confident in the management of their
condition. Two toolkits have been developed
to support future rollout of DESMOND
groups for the D/deaf community with Type
2 diabetes around the UK and Ireland.
www.desmond.nhs.uk
JDRF wins
healthcare award
JDRF UK has won the 2024 Healthcare & Medical Research
Award for the development, research and NICE approval of
Hybrid Closed Loop, regarded as the most transformational
treatment in Type 1 diabetes since the discovery of insulin, and
now prescribed on the NHS in England, Wales and Scotland.
It is set to become a first line in treatment in Type 1 diabetes,
with the UK leading the world in access, free at the point of
need. This has been the result of 16 years of international
medical research, funded by JDRF UK and its international
affiliates, with University of Cambridge and Professor Roman
Hovorka leading the world in the development of Hybrid
Closed Loop.
IDDT June
newsletter
published
The InDependent Diabetes Trust
(IDDT) has just published its June
2024 newsletter which includes
information of their conference
event in September. Click on
image to download it, or to find
out more, CLICK HERE.
JUNE 2024 Newsletter, Issue 121
A charity supporting and listening to people who live with diabetes
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As you will read in this Newsletter,
IDDT receives many calls and emails
from people who are distressed,
worried or anxious and sometimes
simply angry and frustrated as a
result of their experiences with
today's NHS. We have to be fair,
there are other people who have
good experiences at the hands of
the NHS. However, we have to look
at what has changed because we are
aware that the calls and emails we
have been receiving for the last 5
years or so, are very different from
the ones we received in the previous
20 years. We are logging them
anonymously, but we know they
are from all areas of the country.
Unfortunately, I have had reason to spend a lot of
time visiting a relative in hospital, and still doing so.
Treatment has been between two hospitals, one
described as one of the government's "super"
hospitals with an 'excellent' CQC rating and a
much older hospital with a CQC rating of 'in need
for improvement'.
My observation? The 'excellent super' hospital
could be criticised on so many levels and the move
to the old 'in need of improving' hospital was a
big improvement. I have had time to assess the
differences between the two hospitals and I have
concluded that the differences are that the staff in
the older hospital showed care, compassion and
communication which were sadly lacking from the
majority of the staff at the 'super' hospital.
Looking at the reasons for the calls IDDT receives
from members and non-members, it does seem
that care, compassion and communication are
what they are missing.
The definition of Care: to maintain, restore, or
promote someone's physical, mental or emotional
well-being especially when performed by trained
and licensed professionals (as in medicine,
dentistry, clinical psychology, and public health).
The definition of Compassion: the feeling that
arises when you are confronted with another's
suffering and feel motivated to relieve that
suffering. In practice this means speaking with
kindness, listening carefully without judgement,
apologising when you have made a mistake,
forgiving people for making mistakes and
accepting people for who they are.
The definition of communication: this is a
two-way process of sharing information in the form
of thoughts, opinions and ideas between two or
more people with the purpose of building an
understanding.
Here are just a few of the calls IDDT receives all
of which show a lack or care, compassion or
communication or all three!
Care, Compassion and
Communication
"Medication was increased, GP requested
HbA1c test but receptionist refused to book
one until it had been a year causing anxiety
about possible side effects and lack of support
from healthcare professionals."
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