Service user representatives
Dealing with the health service can sometimes be a frustrating experience if you or a loved one has diabetes.
Why not become a user representative, and help shape your NHS by sitting on a local planning group and influencing decisions?
With user involvement you can improve diabetes services from the inside.
Many ordinary people with diabetes and their carers have joined NHS committees to ensure local diabetes services meet national standards – and so could you.
Such local planning groups (they have different names in different places) are implementing the diabetes frameworks in each of the four nations.
If you have a complaint about the care you have received, talk to your local Patient Advice and Liaison Service. But hold off from joining an NHS planning group just yet, because you'll find it harder to be objective.