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N.H.S. Diabetes.

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"NHS Diabetes works to raise the quality of diabetes care in England by supporting and working with the healthcare community and people with diabetes.

The team's role is to ensure the delivery of the Diabetes Nationl Service Framework - a government pledge to improve Diabetes care across the board by 2013".

If you click on the links there seems to be a lot of chiefs but not many indians. These include a Knowledge Manager :?: :?:


http://www.diabetes.nhs.uk/
 
Interesting, Catherine. I have met the London area contact person - over 15 years ago, before diabetes - &have just emailed her.
 
I emailed her & she phoned back - she wa surprised I remembered her from 1988! So much for brain impairment from low carb.

She looked at this forum while we were talking, & promised to consider the points I made that were critical of the official NHS/DUK diet, & the help available from experienced diabetics.

I've just followed a link to your website, from www.diabetes.co.uk

I remember your name from a Southall study I was involved in over 15 years ago, where various tests relating to heart & diabetes were done, particularly comparing Asian & indigenous populations. We did a food diary for you, & you supplied an electronic scale with automatic tare that worked so fast that we could pour sugar onto it steadily with continual reset to zero!

I've been T2 diabetic for about 10 years, & am 71 next month

For the first 8 years I followed the NHS/DUK diet guidelines, keeping active & basing my diet on low/medium GI carbs. Two years ago I was becoming crippled with leg muscle pains that were ending my active life. At that point, I found the www.diabetes.co.uk forum, & found that many diabetics had found that a drastic reduction in carb consumption, contrary to the medical advice, gave great benefits.

Within 3 months I was active again, playing tennis at club standard & my health in no way impaired by diabetes. I've lost 7 Kg. (BMI 25)

Now my HbA1c is 5.9, down from 6.7 two years ago.

My active approach to diabetes control leads me to believe that NHS diabetes care is seriously flawed, particularly with regard to diet. There seems to be an accepted line - received wisdom - that is used by health professionals that a diet based on complex carbs is beneficial. I have found the contrary, & when the complications set in, a low carb diet reversed the complications.

I attended the recent DUK conference on "Self Management" & an "X-PERT Course" at Hounslow.

I suspect that a major weakness of diabetes care is that the health professionals tend not to be diabetic, & do not realise how much there is for them to learn from those of us who are coping with the disease. I'm a retired professional scientist.

I look forward to hearing from you, & hope I can be helpful.
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