Diabetes UK is supporting the NHS to improve local diabetes care by involving people living with diabetes.
Through the Improving Local Services Together project, funded by the Department of Health, we are working with up to 20 NHS organisations to involve people living with diabetes in service improvement projects.
Diabetes UK has a proven track record of facilitating high-quality service user engagement. We will offer advice, guidance and support over the course of a year to ensure that the organisations’ service improvement work fully involves the people and communities it will benefit.
The organisations
In the first year of the project, Diabetes UK are working with the following organisations to develop their user involvement:
We are working closely with these organisations to help them design effective mechanisms for user involvement and support them to implement this locally. All of this is aimed at ensuring that people living with diabetes are able to influence decisions over the planning, design and delivery of local diabetes services.
This work will run from November 2012 until September 2013. Throughout the course of the project we will be posting information regarding progress of the project and the individual organisations on this page, so check back here for updates.
Recruitment for Year 2
Diabetes UK are now recruiting NHS organisations to work with us for the second year of the project. We are looking for a further 10 NHS organisations to take part in the project between October 2013 and September 2014. If this is something that your organisation might be interested in, please register your interest using the contact form.
Other opportunities
Through the Improving Local Services Together Project we will also be offering training and development opportunities to representatives of NHS organisations. This is in the form of Patient Involvement Workshops which are open to all NHS staff in England, and are free of charge.
The Patient Involvement Workshops are designed to increase skills and knowledge of how to put in place effective patient engagement models.
If you are interested in attending one of these workshops, please get in touch with the Improving Local Services Together Project Team.
Get in touch
If you would like further information regarding the project, or would like to know more about how your organisation can get involved, please contact the Improving Local Services Together project team at Diabetes UK - ILSTProjectTeam@diabetes.org.uk.