If you don't like the way you are treated at your diabetic clinic do what I did, ask your doctor to change it, it is your right to change and do some research before you do, look at what you want and what hospital is offering you that facility, ring their Beta team and ask them if they would be willing to take you on if they say yes. Go to your GP and let him/her know what the hospital has told you and they should by law refer you. I have been refered to a very good hospital and have never looked back, none of the team are diabetics but are very knowledgable about all the new things out there, most are young, (but I am no spring chicken so a lot of prof: look young to me now). As for looking young and not being a diabetic themselves is a negative outlook, as if you were to be going to have heart surgery would you have wanted the Dr who was performing the op to have had openheart surgery first. Most of these professionals have had years of training and research into their subject field, that is my opinion and is enough for me. As an ex-teacher I taught from books and reseach as that is all one can do, I didn't need to be a Coalminer or Sufragette, to teach about them.