Not had an eye test booked or any information at all nothing to readWhat did you want to happen? BTW I've never had my feet checked. I came away from my first DN visit with lots of paper and a booklet to read.
Yes Im on metformin I can't imagine the nurses worked on a Saturday for nothing so I don't know what the doctor just couldn't have done it in ordinary time when she seen me
Not had an eye test booked or any information at all nothing to read
I was told that she had referred me for the eye test, which in fact I had only a couple of weeks later.
The DN probably has referred you for the eye screening, and you should get a letter giving you a date for the appointment in due course.
But you could ring the surgery to check that you have been referred.
You should get your retinal appointment automatically through the post once you are on the diabetic register Your doctor or nurse can't make the appointments. Sometimes it can take a few months for the first one depending how busy they are and where you have to go to get it doneNot had an eye test booked or any information at all nothing to read
I suffer from a whole variety of ailments, and have found specialist nurses to be more helpful, up to date and knowledgeable than GPs or even specialists who must earn many times their salary. It has happened to me to have a nurse follow me out of the room after my consultation with a specialist, shut the door behind her, lean on it and then come out with what the specialist should have told me.Most GPs delegate T2 diabetes care to a nurse. This is common. More serious cases are referred to a specialist clinic, mostly T1s.
The nurses go on specific training courses for this and the majority of them know what they are doing. GPs don't normally have specialist training in diabetes. There will always be bad apples, but there are also bad apple GPs.
I am happy with seeing my nurse. She has followed the Diabetes Care Pathway to the letter since I was diagnosed 4 years ago. Her dietary advice is the Eatwell Plate, but she recognises this is wrong but has to follow guidelines. I have never once seen a doctor in relation to my diabetes, and I am glad about that.
Where are you?And bear in mind that some eye screening clinics often only call to each locality at certain times of the year as they are mobile, so you may have a long wait - but the recommendations say no more than 6 months.
Where are you?
When the reminder letter from the nhs comes, I walk down to my local opticians, and they do the full screening, retinal photographs and all. If there's a problem, they say so and then refer me to the eye clinic at the local hospital.
This is the official screening. I get one letter from the screening service, and one from the nhs. There's a list of qualified and local opticians I can choose from. I'm not given the option of a mobile screening clinic, so I was wondering if you lived somewhere classified as 'remote' to get that choice.I choose to use the official screening rather than an optician. My choice. I know then that it will be done according to the correct procedure. My letter comes directly from the national screening service, not the NHS.
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