Diabetes Clinic waiting list

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mickthered

Active Member
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35
Type of diabetes
Type 2
Treatment type
Other
diagnosed early January and told by the doc would get more info once there and referred to by him

Received a letter two weeks later asking me to phone to make an app and given the 15 April to see the doc I mentioned that was quite a way off to be told teats no problem as I would need to see the nurse first before then and they was going to try and fit me in as soon as and I would get a phone call back no surprise but never got a phone call

Phoned back to be then told by some stroppy nurse that I shouldn't have been told that and it would be about May June before I get an app at the clinic

Is this a normal waiting time
 
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jayne15

Well-Known Member
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Hi the department of health GP-specialist waiting time is currently 18 weeks. I am not sure if the diabetes nice guideline has a specialist review pathway but may be worth a look. Could you perhaps speak to your practice nurse in the mean time ? most practice nurses have a wealth of knowledge on diabetes.
 
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Lesley r

Active Member
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We don't have an endo consultant in our local district hospital one comes 1 day a week from the next nearest hospital and from what I understand if you need admission you are 50 miles from here!


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Daibell

Master
Messages
12,653
Type of diabetes
LADA
Treatment type
Insulin
Hi. It's not clear from your post whether your GP surgery, although it presumably diagnosed you doesn't, have any diabetes doctors or nurses there? May be you could insist that your local GP or nurse takes some interim steps before you see an endo. Are you now following a low-carb diet to help? The surgery could do an HBa1C test anyway and if necessary prescribe Metformin etc? If your diabetes is in early stages then having a low-carb diet whilst waiting may be frustrating but not harmful as many of us are put on a diet for 3 months before an HBa1c blood test and any meds are given. Do get hold of a meter whilst waiting so you can monitor your blood sugar and the effects of foods.
 
Sid Bonkers

Sid Bonkers

Well-Known Member
Messages
3,976
Type of diabetes
Type 2
Treatment type
Diet only
Dislikes
Customer helplines that use recorded menus that promise to put me through to the right person but never do - and being ill. Oh, and did I mention customer helplines :)
Hi mickthered and welcome to the forum.

To be honest it is extremely unusual for a T2 on oral meds to be referred to a specialist diabetic unit, most T2's will only ever see a practice nurse at their local GP surgery who usually run what is called their Diabetes clinic, this nurse will usually also deal with the respiratory clinic looking after asthmatics and also any other special clinics the GP surgery operates. Their specialist knowledge is not very good in many cases, I had my care transferred to my local GP's clinic when I was on insulin and when I asked the "diabetes nurse" a question she said "sorry but I dont know much about insulin"!! She also tests my lung function twice a year at the respiratory clinic. She is very nice but has not got the qualifications of an endo or a respiratory consultant.

So you should consider yourself very lucky indeed to be referred at all :clap:
 
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