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Making Involvement Happen

A new practical resource to help your organisation involve people with diabetes to improve diabetes care.

Making Involvement Happen
 
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About this resource

What is included and how you can use it.

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User Involvement in local diabetes care project

This project worked with three NHS organisations to establish user involvement in local diabetes care.

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The basics

What do we mean, why it is important and how Diabetes UK can help.

People network

Getting ready to involve

Steps you can take to get your organisation ready to involve people living with diabetes.

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Planning involvement

A good plan will make sure you get the people you need involved in the right way at the right time, and let the right people hear about it.

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Delivering involvement: establishing a user group

Practical guidance, resources and case studies to help with implementing user involvement.

Group involvement

Delivering involvement: engagement events

Practical guidance, resources and case studies to help with implementing user involvement.

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Evaluation

What you should be evaluating and how to plan for it.

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Resources

Links, materials and downloadable documents.

Contact the User Involvement team

  • Do you need support to engage your local diabetes community?
 

Created by the User Involvement in Local Diabetes Care project – a partnership between NHS Diabetes and Diabetes UK.

 

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