Influencing diabetes services
Learn and improve how to influence local diabetes services on specific topics that are consistently reported as the main issues of concern by people with diabetes.
These days will help you to understand the key issues, become confident in influencing and give you the opportunity to share experiences and learn from others.
There will be four days and each day will be focusing on one of the following specific areas of diabetes services:
- Issues on self management eg access to testing strips, emotional and psychological support and access to structured patient education.
- Access to high quality specialist services eg retinal screening, cuts in specialist services/posts, transition from paediatric to adult services.
- Support in schools eg lack of understanding by school staff, lack of suitable space for carrying out insulin injections, banned from school trips/activities, parents giving up work to do insulin injections.
- Access to insulin pump services for children eg unable to get assessed, unable to access the funding for the pump/consumables or experienced specialist teams for clinical support.
| Training issue |
Nation/Region |
Location |
Date |
| Support in schools |
Open to all regions |
Manchester |
16 May 2009 |
| Insulin pump services for children |
Open to all regions |
London |
20 June 2009 |
| Access to high quality specialist services |
Open to all regions |
Leeds |
12 Sep 2009 |
| Self management issues |
Open to all regions |
London |
21 Nov 2009 |
Contact: Raj Johal
Email: campaigns@diabetes.org.uk
How to get noticed
This one day training course will show you how to write successful press releases and letters to politicians. It will also equip you with some interview skills for broadcast media and help you to publicise your campaigns and activities more effectively.
| Nation/Region |
Location |
Date |
| Open to all regions |
London |
18 April 2009 |
| Open to all regions |
Birmingham |
31 October 2009 |
Contact: Raj Johal
Email: campaigns@diabetes.org.uk