Molly56
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Does anyone have any experience or advice about community diabetes teams..............from my thread - living with a partner with uncontrolled type 2 diabetes....
Had an appointment with my GP on Thursday as I could feel that my stress levels had been rising and was finding it difficult to cope with all the issues being thrown at me regarding my partner's diabetes. Thankfully my GP knows what I am having to deal with and was sympathetic to my cause.
One suggestion that he made was that I contact the local diabetes community team in our area.....have just googled them and found the following information.....
"The diabetes primary care service provides patient centred care for children and adults with diabetes and their family/carers in the local area. This includes diabetes education, annual review, insulin initiation and ongoing management, blood glucose control, pre-conception advice, identification and management of complications, psychological care, behaviour change strategies, health and lifestyle education/information, risk factor control, travel advice and liaison with other agencies such as social services, podiatry and dietetics."
Does anyone have any experience of what the community team can offer that the GP does not?
I am assuming that perhaps they can provide additional information / support that the GP / practice nurse does not have the time / resources for.
I particularly picked up on the phrase "provides patient centred care for children and adults with diabetes and their family/carers" so hope that perhaps I can find some support for myself in terms of dealing with the situation I am in.
Will give them a call next week but thought it would be useful to put some information together first so that I know what I will be asking.
If anyone has any experience of these types of team it would be useful to hear.
Had an appointment with my GP on Thursday as I could feel that my stress levels had been rising and was finding it difficult to cope with all the issues being thrown at me regarding my partner's diabetes. Thankfully my GP knows what I am having to deal with and was sympathetic to my cause.
One suggestion that he made was that I contact the local diabetes community team in our area.....have just googled them and found the following information.....
"The diabetes primary care service provides patient centred care for children and adults with diabetes and their family/carers in the local area. This includes diabetes education, annual review, insulin initiation and ongoing management, blood glucose control, pre-conception advice, identification and management of complications, psychological care, behaviour change strategies, health and lifestyle education/information, risk factor control, travel advice and liaison with other agencies such as social services, podiatry and dietetics."
Does anyone have any experience of what the community team can offer that the GP does not?
I am assuming that perhaps they can provide additional information / support that the GP / practice nurse does not have the time / resources for.
I particularly picked up on the phrase "provides patient centred care for children and adults with diabetes and their family/carers" so hope that perhaps I can find some support for myself in terms of dealing with the situation I am in.
Will give them a call next week but thought it would be useful to put some information together first so that I know what I will be asking.
If anyone has any experience of these types of team it would be useful to hear.
