• Introduction to diabetes
• Treatment & your health
• Living with diabetes
• What care to expect
• From the NHS
• From your healthcare team
• InfoBank - your local care
• In hospital
• At your annual review
• Your responsibilities
• Complaints
• Year of care
• Complications
• Food and recipes
• Educational events
• Your stories
• My life - for young people with diabetes

From your healthcare team

What to expect on a regular basis

On a regular basis, your diabetes care team should:

Provide continuity of care, ideally from the same doctors and nurses — if this is not possible, the doctors or nurses who you are seeing should be fully aware of your medical history and background.

• Work with you to continually review your care programme, including your diabetes management goals.
• Let you share in decisions about your treatment or care.
• Let you manage your own diabetes in hospital after discussion with your doctor, if you are well enough to do so and that is what you wish.
• Organise pre and post pregnancy advice, together with an obstetric hospital team, if you are planning to become or already are pregnant.
• Encourage a carer to visit with you, to keep them up to date on diabetes so that they can make informed judgements about diabetes care.
• Encourage the support of friends, partners and/or relatives.
• Provide you with educational sessions and appointments if you wish.
• Give you advice on the effects of diabetes and its treatments when you are ill or taking other medication.
  

• What to expect when your diabetes is reasonably controlled
• What to expect with your treatment