Royal Derby Hospital deliver an integrated diabetes service giving people access to services in a community setting while bridging the gap with specialist services. The organisation is working towards building sustainable mechanisms for service users to influence delivery of diabetes services by feeding into decision-making.
Diabetes UK are working with Royal Derby to establish a user group in each of the five locality areas making up the organisation’s patch; helping them develop effective terms of reference, role descriptions for members and to recruit appropriate people. We will then assist them to set up an over-arching user reference group which will represent each of the localities and feed directly into the Clinical Management Team.
For further information about the Improving Local Services Together Project, please get in touch with the team on 020 7424 1035 or ILSTProjectTeam@diabetes.org.uk.