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Guide to diabetes

• Type 1 diabetes
• Are you Type 1 diabetes aware?
• Type 2 diabetes
• Children and diabetes
• What type of diabetes do I have?
• Life stages
• Recently diagnosed
• Planning a pregnancy
• I am pregnant
• I have gestational diabetes
• Preschool children
• Children
• Teens
• Early adult life
• Resources for school staff
• Resources for care home staff
• Someone I know has diabetes
• About online health information
• Spotting misleading claims
• Search engines
• Useful websites
• All about diabetes
• What is diabetes?
• What is Type 1 diabetes?
• What is Type 2 diabetes?
• Prediabetes
• Maturity onset diabetes of the young (MODY)
• Type 2 diabetes in children
• Gestational diabetes
• Neonatal diabetes
• Alström Syndrome
• Wolfram Syndrome
• Diabetes symptoms
• Causes and risk factors
• Treating diabetes
• Coming to terms with diagnosis
• Caring for someone with diabetes
• Other associated conditions
• Coeliac disease
• Diabetes insipidus
• Polycystic ovary syndrome
• Skin (Necrobiosis)
• Breasts (Mastopathy)
• Musculoskeletal Conditions
• Dental health
• Information in British Sign Language
• All About Diabetes – audio information
• Diabetes - A guide for Gypsies, Roma and Travellers
• 1 - Introduction
• 2 - What is diabetes?
• 3 - Eat well. Stay active
• 4 - Other health problems
• 5 - Hypos
• 6 - Travelling with diabetes
• 7 - Who to contact
• Myths and frequently asked questions
• Student resources
• Living with diabetes
• Coping with diabetes
• Letting people know
• Employment and diabetes
• The Equality Act 2010
• Applying for jobs
• When to tell recruiters
• Managing your diabetes at work
• Hypos at work
• Taking time off
• Sources of support and further information
• Caring for children with diabetes
• Publications for carers of children
• Teach your tot about diabetes
• Best practice guidelines
• Children with diabetes at school
• Pregnancy and diabetes
• Before you become pregnant
• Preconception care and diabetes
• During your pregnancy
• You and your baby: after the birth
• You and your baby: breastfeeding
• Your stories
• Discrimination
• Driving
• Informing the DVLA
• Applying for a driving licence
• DVA in Northern Ireland
• Driving licences
• Insurance cover
• Hypoglycaemia
• If your licence is taken away
• If you have an accident
• Diabetic complications
• Group 2 licences
• Driving under 'blue light' conditions
• Alcohol
• Road safety
• Sources of support
• Insurance
• Travel insurance
• Motor insurance
• Insurance/assurance for loans and life
• Health insurance and hospital cash insurance
• Pension options
• Further information
• Financial entitlements
• Prescriptions
• Disability Living Allowance
• Sex and diabetes
• Women and sexual dysfunction
• Men and sexual dysfunction
• Getting further help
• Further information
• How it affects me
• Travel
• Your diet while away from home
• Things to check out before you go
• Packing for your trip
• Blood glucose conversions
• Before leaving home
• Air travel and insulin
• Dealing with illness while abroad
• Airline catering - advice for airline catering companies
• Illness
• Be prepared
• When you are ill
• When you are better
• Checklist
• Children, illness and diabetes
• Organ and blood donation
• Type 1 videos
• The Bendy Bus
• Food and recipes
• Eating well with Type 1 diabetes
• About carbohydrate
• Ten steps to eating well
• Your questions answered
• A healthy balance
• Know your labels
• Audio information
• Eating well with Type 2 diabetes
• About carbohydrate
• Ten steps to eating well
• Your questions answered
• A healthy balance
• What's on your plate?
• Managing your weight
• Know your labels
• Audio information
• Recipes
• Adapting recipes
• General cooking tips
• Catering for people with diabetes
• Shopping advice – Store Tour
• The Glycaemic Index
• Carbohydrate counting
• Fasting and diabetes
• What is fasting?
• Who fasts?
• What happens to your body during fasting?
• Changes to your diet
• Other things to remember
• Summary
• Celebrations and eating out
• Keeping blood glucose levels in check
• Eating out
• Children's parties
• Vitamin and mineral supplements
• Sugar and sweeteners
• Healthy lifestyles
• Eating well
• Keeping active
• What makes it important to you?
• So what's stopping you?
• What counts as activity?
• Activities to get you started
• Top tips for being active
• Before you start
• Training for events and competitions
• Sports drinks
• Managing your weight
• How do I know if I need to lose weight?
• Video – How to measure your waist
• Getting motivated
• Who can help?
• Healthy eating and lifestyle
• Calorie controlled plan
• Commercial weight loss programmes
• Setting goals
• Medication and surgery
• Smoking
• Smoking and diabetes
• Support to quit
• Benefits of giving up
• Alcohol and diabetes
• What is a unit?
• Medication and alcohol
• Hypoglycaemia
• Your health
• Be aware
• Emotional wellbeing
• Living with diabetes
• What is depression?
• Coming to terms with depression
• Treatments
• Psychological support and counselling
• Support information for carers
• Further information
• Monitoring your health
• Glucose levels
• Self-blood glucose testing
• Video – how to test blood glucose levels
• Blood glucose targets
• Blood glucose meters
• Finger-pricking devices and lancets
• Disposal of sharps - needles and lancets
• Worried about finger-pricking?
• Urine testing
• HbA1c (Glycated haemoglobin) and fructosamine
• Blood pressure
• High blood pressure (hypertension)
• Blood fats (lipids)
• Feet
• How can diabetes affect your feet?
• How do I look after my feet?
• What are the danger signs?
• What is an infection?
• How do I get help to look after my feet?
• What can I expect at a foot examination?
• Touch the Toes test
• Caring for your feet on holiday
• Specialist footwear
• Eyes
• Retinal eye screening: what to expect
• iPhone Tracker app
• Treatments
• Medication
• About diabetes medication
• Different types of diabetes medication
• Changing from medication to insulin
• Insulin
• About injecting
• Worried about injecting?
• Video – how to inject insulin safely
• Storing insulin
• Alternatives to injecting insulin
• Disposal of sharps - needles and lancets
• Insulin pumps
• Islet transplants
• Who to contact
• Blood pressure
• Blood pressure medications
• Blood fats (cholesterol)
• Blood fat medications
• Complementary therapies
• Herbal supplements
• Karela
• Cinnamon
• Vitamin and mineral supplements
• Omega 3, fish and fish oils
• Plant sterols and stanols
• Vaccinations
• Seasonal flu (influenza)
• Pneumonia (pneumoccocal)
• Travel vaccinations
• Support for you
• 15 healthcare essentials
• Care survey results 2012
• What to do next
• Different languages
• Diabetes Watch
• Diabetes Watch online tool
• Diabetes care and you
• Diabetes care UK
• What you should expect from the NHS
• Working with your healthcare team
• What care you should expect from your healthcare team
• 15 healthcare essentials checklist
• Self-managing your diabetes
• Complaints
• Get involved
• Audio information
• Diabetes care in hospital
• Before your stay
• During your stay
• After your stay
• Complaints
• Structured Education
• Choosing a course
• Forthcoming courses
• Information and networking events
• Family network days
• Educational events
• NICE Quality Standard: Diabetes in Adults
• Year of care
• What is the Year of Care?
• Care planning
• How does the year of care work?
• Hot topics
• Find out more
• Complications – how to protect yourself
• Cardiovascular disease
• Eyes (Retinopathy)
• Diabetes and how it causes eye problems
• What is retinopathy?
• How retinopathy affects your vision
• What causes retinopathy?
• How can I reduce my risk?
• Types of retinopathy
• How is retinopathy treated?
• Your questions answered
• Nerves (Neuropathy)
• Sensory neuropathy
• Autonomic neuropathy
• Motor neuropathy
• Gastroparesis
• And finally
• Kidneys (Nephropathy)
• Hypoglycaemia
• Causes
• Signs and symptoms
• Treatment
• Hypos at night
• Video - how to recognise and treat a hypo
• Hypos and physical activity
• Hypos and driving
• Hypos and alcohol
• Important points to remember
• 'Hypo' dogs
• Non-diabetic hypoglycaemia
• Diabetic ketoacidosis
• Hyperosmolar Hyperglycaemic State (HHS)
• How diabetes can affect the organs
  in your body
• Your stories
• 'You can live a full and active life with diabetes'
• Bridget Wilkins and her father Jim Nicholls
• Jim's story
• Bridget's diagnosis in 1951
• Bridget - as a young adult and motherhood
• Bridget today
• My life – for young people with diabetes
• Diabetes in care homes
• Specific care for elderly people
• Care planning
• Infection
• Incontinence
• Feet
• Kidneys
• Eyes
• Oral health
• End of life care
• Food and nutrition
• Eating well in care homes
• Helping independent older people
• Meal planning
• Additional considerations
• Recipes for weight management
• Individualised information
• Information and education
• Activity
• Start up
• Exercises for people who are mobile
• Exercises from a chair
• Exercises for someone confined to bed
• Hypoglycaemia in elderly people
• Signs and symptoms
• Chronic hypoglycaemia
• Treatment of hypoglycaemia
• Prevention of hypoglycaemia
• Mental health
• Depression
• Memory problems
• Hospital
• Admission to hospital
• Avoiding admission
• Management of diabetes in hospital
• Preparation for discharge
• Annual review
• What if I can’t get to the clinic?
• Information in different languages
• Your feedback

How we help

• Talk to someone
• Careline
• Online communities
• Peer Support
• Care events
• Children and Young People’s Events
• Family Events
• Volunteering
• Healthcare professional volunteering
• Help with applying
• Applying for Children and Young People’s Events
• Applying for Family Events
• Applying to be a volunteer
• Roadshow
• What are the risk assessments?
• Contact the Roadshow team
• Advocacy
• Advocacy packs
• Insurance and finance
• Travel insurance
• Case study - Mr Cooper
• Case study - Mr Peacock
• Case study - Mr Rowe
• Diabetes UK Travel Essentials
• Motor insurance
• Home insurance
• Insulin pumps insurance
• Retirement
• Life insurance
• Case study - Mr Gray
• Life Assurance Offer
• Health cash plan
• Funeral planning
• Training and awareness courses
• Course video
• Diabetes awareness training
• Current courses
• Managing emotions in consultations
• Diabetes awareness in the workplace
• Healthy Lifestyle Corporate Roadshow
• Living with Diabetes Days
• Local support groups
• Find a local support group
• In your area
• Diabetes UK Tracker smartphone app
• Balance and other magazines
• Balance
• Past issues
• Diabetes Update
• Tadpole Times
• Diabetes Lifestyle
• Online shop
• Science information
• Supporting Membership
• Benefits of Supporting Membership
• For Healthcare Professionals

Get involved

• Donate
• big-plans
• we-wont-stop
• Ways to donate
• Research appeal
• Coin box appeal
• Coin box request form
• Donations in memory
• Set up a tribute fund
• Make a donation in memory
• Request funeral envelopes
• Payroll giving
• What difference will payroll giving make?
• Leave a legacy
• Legal terms explained
• Your free will guide
• Your intentions
• How to make a legacy payment
• Gift aid
• Text to donate
• Fundraising
• Running
• Running events - homepage
• Fun runs
• 5K runs
• 10K runs
• Half marathons
• Marathons
• Bupa Great Run Series
• Overseas runs
• Other runs
• All runs
• Your stories
• Training plans
• Triathlons
• Walking
• Walk for Diabetes
• Swimming
• Swim22
• Cycling
• Overseas Adventure Challenges
• UK Challenges
• Abseils and zip slides
• Parachuting and skydiving
• Other challenges
• Social events
• Dance
• Denim for diabetes
• Formal balls
• Golf
• Wedding Favours/ Celebration Cards
• Race days
• Party time
• Other social
• Fright nights
• Festive and cultural events
• Guaranteed places
• Other ways to fundraise
• Donate your unwanted car
• Children's book
• Adopt a project
• Collect stamps
• Everyclick.com
• Jewellery appeal
• Recycle your unwanted gadgets
• Shop on eBay
• Beat the energy price hikes
• How to fundraise online
• Tips
• Getting started
• Organising events
• Sponsorship tips
• Online fundraising
• Top ten fundraising tips
• Diabetes Challenge
• Your Diabetes Challenge stories
• Face-to-face fundraising
• How your money helps
• Your chance to win
• Christmas Eve Prize Draw
• Weekly lottery
• How do I enter?
• How will I know if I have won?
• Lottery rules
• Winners
• Winners' stories
• Diabetes Week
• Fundraising
• Walk for Diabetes
• Dive for Diabetes
• Other fundraising
• How your money helps
• Spread the word
• Healthcare professionals
• About our research
• Meet our researchers
• Raising awareness
• Getting started
• Booking a speaker
• Volunteering
• Become a speaker
• Events volunteers
• Community Champions
• News and Events 2013
• News and Events 2012
• News and Events 2011
• Change4Life campaign
• Awareness events
• Diabetes UK awareness events
• Other awareness events
• World Diabetes Day
• 2011 activities
• 2010 activities
• Supporting each other
• Children and family support events
• Voluntary groups
• Start a new group
• Help for existing groups
• Resources
• Diabetes Voices
• Sign up for Diabetes Voices
• Diabetes Voices: for registered users
• Diabetes Voices registration
• Take action
• Foot campaign
• Campaign for change
• Get involved in your NHS
• Diabetes Voices stories
• Diabetes personal care charter – Peter Gilbert
• Campaigning for change – Sheila Burston
• Politics in action – Alex Wild
• Championing the patient perspective – Peter Green
• Guides and How to's
• Frequently asked questions
• Campaigning
• Type 1 essentials for children and young people
• What are the Type 1 essentials?
• What to do next
• 4 Ts campaign
• Amelia Lily supports the 4 Ts
• Putting Feet First
• Our work in Parliament
• All-Party Parliamentary Group for Diabetes
• Volunteering
• Events and workshops
• Key dates for 2013
• How can I volunteer?
• Involve Newsletter
• Issue 1
• Issue 2
• Issue 3
• Issue 4
• Issue 5
• Issue 6
• Tesco Big Collection Weekend
• Volunteers' stories
• Tell us your story - volunteers
• Support Diabetes UK
• Office volunteers
• Production Volunteer
• National Events And Fundraising Volunteer
• Bupa Events Volunteer
• Equality & Diversity Volunteer
• Development Team office Volunteer
• Market Research Volunteer
• Board of Trustees
• Diabetes UK Involvement Network
• Celebrity supporters
• Alexandra Burke
• Melanie C
• Rosemary Conley
• Stephen Dixon
• Cheryl Fergison
• Eamonn Holmes
• Amy Lamé
• Amelia Lily
• Matt Littler
• Dominic Littlewood
• Gary Mabbutt MBE
• Paul O'Neill
• Joe Pasquale
• Sir Steve Redgrave CBE
• Phillip Schofield
• Arthur Smith
• Corporate partners
• Why choose Diabetes UK?
• Where your money goes
• Benefits to you
• Ways to work with us
• Payroll giving for employers
• Sponsorship
• Charity of the Year
• Cause-related marketing
• Staff fundraising
• Previous events
• Consultancy and logo association
• Other ways to work with us
• Acknowledgements
• Contact us

Research

• About our research
• Research Strategy
• A flexible approach
• Investing in people
• How we fund research
• How we decide
• Gathering your views
• Latest research
• Ongoing research
• Research project directory
• Research successes
• Past fellows
• Black and minority ethnic groups
• Cardiovascular disease
• Care and treatment
• Cause and prevention
• Diabetic retinopathy
• Genetics
• Genetics (Type 2 diabetes)
• Gestational diabetes
• Immune system
• Insulin resistance
• Insulin signalling
• Obesity
• Psychosocial
• Treatment (Type 2 diabetes)
• Help fund research
• Position statements
• Get involved in research
• Diabetes Research Network
• Diabetes research trial opportunities
• For researchers
• Apply for a grant
• General guidelines for applicants
• Grant Conditions and IPR
• Sir George Alberti Research Training Fellowship
• Project grants
• Moffat Travelling Fellowship
• Equipment grants
• Small grants
• RD Lawrence Fellowship
• Clinical Training Fellowship
• Fulbright Diabetes UK Research Award
• AHP, nurse and midwife Research Training Fellowship
• PhD Studentship
• Our funding process
• Research Committee
• User Involvement – GAP
• Panels
• Managing your grant
• Questions about your grant
• Communicating your research
• Financial details and processes
• Help with involving participants
• Local and comprehensive research networks
• England
• Wales
• Scotland
• Northern Ireland
• Diabetes Research Network
• The artificial pancreas
• Contact the Research team

Professionals

• News, updates, prizes and alerts
• Updates
• New Medicine Service
• Licence extension for Onglyza use in patients with Type 2 diabetes
• Safer administration of insulin
• Key issues questionnaire
• Education for young people with diabetes evaluated
• Medical alerts
• Prizes and awards
• Diabetes UK Professional Conference
• Making Involvement Happen
• About this resource
• User Involvement in Local Diabetes Care project
• The project
• Impact
• Key lessons
• Advice from service users
• The basics
• Why user involvement is important?
• What is user involvement?
• Legislation and policy
• Getting ready to involve
• Why do you want to involve people?
• Do you have the necessary senior level support?
• Who is going to lead this work?
• Making your case
• Who will be influenced by involving people?
• Who can help you?
• Where will you get the resources?
• What barriers will you face?
• Planning involvement
• Who do you need to involve?
• What approach is right?
• Develop a plan
• Who do you need to communicate with and how will you do it?
• Produce all necessary materials
• Delivering involvement: establishing a user group
• Recruiting members for a user group
• Group size
• Finding the range of people you need
• Defining the role
• Recruiting: advertising and selection
• Early stages of the group
• The induction session
• What will the group do?
• Representation on decision-making groups
• Regular reviews
• Dealing with problems
• Delivering involvement: engagement events
• Recruiting participants
• Planning
• Running the day
• Event details
• Feedback from participants
• Evaluation
• Plan your evaluation
• Sharing lessons learnt
• Resources
• Contact the User Involvement team
• Improving Local Services Together
• Patient involvement workshops
• Education and skills
• Courses
• Diabetes diploma course - Cardiff University
• Diabetes Pharmaceutical Award
• Healthcare Professional courses and events submission form
• Honours degree in diabetes nursing (York)
• Medicines Management Course (Level 6: 20 credits) University of York
• Postgraduate Diploma in Diabetes - University of South Wales
• Competencies – Feet
• Sexual dysfunction
• Encouraging dialogue
• Conferences and training
• Diabetes UK events and conferences
• All events and conferences
• Teaching aids
• Diabetes awareness toolkit
• Food and diabetes slides
• Store tour for people with diabetes
• Young Diabetologist Forum
• Publications, reports and resources
• Diabetes Update
• Current issue
• Past issues
• Wallcharts & supplements
• Reports, statistics and case studies
• Reports and statistics
• Audit Reports
• Case studies
• Tools
• Change to HbA1c values
• Useful links
• Diabetes Bible
• Diabetes Risk Score assessment tool
• Resources for patients
• Diabetes flash cards
• Sharing your practice
• Submit Your Example
• A - Z of examples
• Care Topics
• Black and Minority Ethnic Communities
• Children and Young People
• Commissioning
• Diabetes Care in Schools
• Early identification
• Emotional and Psychological support
• Eye screening
• Innovative care
• Integrated Care
• Patient education
• Patient held records and care planning
• Physical activity
• Pregnancy
• Sharps Disposal
• User involvement
• Weight Management
• Shared Practice Feedback
• About Shared Practice Database
• Service improvement
• National Diabetes Audit
• NDA reports
• Diabetes UK’s role
• Governance
• NDA latest
• Making the case for DSNs
• DSN Consultative Group
• NICE Quality Standard: Diabetes in Adults
• Year of Care
• Year of Care concept
• Year of Care programme
• Support for Year of Care
• Keeping in touch with Year of Care
• Help us help you
• Volunteering for professionals
• PCT support services
• Primary Care Network
• Membership
• For healthcare professionals
• For people with diabetes

About us

• Who we are
• Our history
• What we do
• Care and support
• Research
• Campaigns
• Prevention
• Communities
• Volunteers
• Healthcare professionals
• Annual reports
• Position statements & recommendations
• Position statements
• Analogue insulin (Feb 2012)
• Consumption of carbohydrate in people with diabetes
• ‘Diabetic foods’ (March 2013)
• Improving inpatient diabetes care - what care adults with diabetes should expect when in hospital (Jun 2009)
• Pioglitazone and bladder cancer
• Prioritising emotional well being (Nov 2007)
• Putting Feet First: Diabetes foot care (March 2012)
• Self-monitoring of blood glucose levels for adults with Type 1 diabetes (2012)
• Sweeteners (Jul 2007)
• Care recommendations
• The arm as an injection site (Feb 2009)
• Good clinical practice guidelines for care home residents with diabetes (Jan 2010)
• The management of Diabetic Ketoacidosis in adults (Mar 2010)
• The hospital management of Hypoglycaemia in adults with Diabetes Mellitus (Mar 2010)
• Nutritional management in children and adolescents with diabetes (Sep 2009)
• How we are governed
• Board of Trustees
• Membership
• Avoiding conflicts of interest
• Council of People Living with Diabetes
• Council of Healthcare Professionals
• Executive Team
• Barbara Young
• Patron, President and Vice-Presidents
• Legal structure & constitution
• Legal information
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