X-PERT Diabetes Course
X-PERT is for people with any type of diabetes
X-PERT is one of several structured diabetes education courses in the UK. Alongside DAFNE and DESMOND, the X-PERT course is aimed at diabetes management for all people with diabetes.
The course has been demonstrably proven to aid long-term control of diabetes, giving patients the knowledge and power to be in control of their diabetes.
What does the diabetes X-PERT course entail?
The diabetes X-PERT course is structured to provide as much diabetes information as possible.
This includes defining:
- What diabetes is
- Knowledge about the eatwell plate
- Carbohydrate awareness and glycaemic index
- How physical activity can help
- Understanding food labels
- Diabetes complications and
- Testing the patient as an X-PERT
How is the diabetes X-PERT course structured?
The X-PERT course runs through six weekly sessions, each session lasting two and a half hours in local communities. The courses are run by trained diabetes educators, who are either diabetic themselves or work as diabetes specialists.
Who can do the X-PERT course?
Anyone diagnosed with diabetes can undertake the X-PERT course. Furthermore, patients can bring their partners or carers, who are encouraged to join in.
How does X-PERT help diabetics?
The X-PERT course can help people with diabetes to learn new diabetes management skills, increase confidence in food choice and diet enhancement.
Furthermore, it can help to meet others with shared experience, and provides diabetics with the power to work with healthcare professionals to manage diabetes in the long-term.
How has diabetes X-PERT helped others?
By taking part in a diabetes X-PERT course, in the past patients have achieved the following: An improvement in body weight and diabetes control, reduced diabetes medication, increased skill to manage diabetes, an improved lifestyle, lower blood pressure and lower cholesterol.
Does it really work?
In the UK, there is a scarcity of diabetes information, particularly for newly diagnosed people. One X-PERT course patient was reported by the NHS as commenting: “This is the first time in 10 years of being a diabetic that anybody has told me these things.”
Knowledge is power when it comes to diabetes management.
