Practice Diabetes Service
Our Diabetes Clinical Team are highly-skilled professionals who work collaboratively to ensure the best possible care for our diabetic patients.
Our Diabetes Clinical Team consists of:
- Doctors: Charlotte Allam, Rebecca May and Vidya Kanthi
- Nurse: Judy Sutton
- Healthcare Assistant: Kerry Harding
- Diabetes Specialist Nurse: Jo McIntyre
The service includes 3 types of diabetes clinics:
1) Diabetes Doctor Led Clinic
2) Diabetes Nurse Led Clinic
3) Joint Diabetes Doctor and Diabetes Specialist Nurse (DSN) Led Clinic
Annual Review Appointments
You will be invited for your annual diabetic review at ONE of the above mentioned clinics. Depending on your blood test results, we will choose the most appropriate clinic for you. Well-controlled diabetic patients will be seen by our practice diabetes nurses, whilst those who are less well controlled will be seen in either the doctor led or joint doctor and DSN led clinic. All appointments are 30 minutes long.
We will contact you when your annual review is due and advise you to book your first blood test (this is NOT a FASTING blood test).
Please collect a white topped urine sample pot from the practice reception. You will need to write your details on the bottle and bring this urine specimen with you, along with the enclosed form, to your blood test appointment, as no urine samples will be accepted without the form.
If you have a home Blood Pressure monitor, please complete the sheet downloadable here.
If you are on insulin or regularly monitoring blood glucose, please record your recent results. You can also use this document here:
Two weeks after your blood test please phone the surgery to book your annual review in the right clinic for you depending on your blood test result.
If for any reason you need to change the appointment please contact the surgery as soon as possible and rebook for another date. It is very difficult to rebook these appointments at short notice, so please give us at least a weeks notice so that we can offer the appointment to someone else.
Leaflets
A) Culture & Diabetes
B) Diabetes in the Elderly
C) Diabetes Support Groups
D) Diabetes UK Information Prescriptions
- Blood pressure
- Cholesterol
- Contraception and Pregnancy
- HbA1c
- Kidney Disease
- Kidney Health
- Low Risk Feet
- Moderate - High Risk Feet
- Mood
E) Driving & Diabetes
- Diabetes and Safe Driving and DVLA
- DVLA Guide for Drivers on Insulin to apply for Group 2 Entitlement - bus and lorry
- DVLA Information for Drivers with diabetes treated by non-insulin medication diet or both
- DVLA Lorry and/or Bus Drivers with diabetes treated by diet alone
F) Eyes and Diabetes
- Closer Monitoring and Treatment for Diabetic Retinopathy
- Diabetes Eye Screening
- Diabetes Eye Screening Information Leaflet
- Diabetes Eye Screening Patient Presentation
- National Diabetes Eye Screening Programme
G) Feet & Diabetes
H) Kidneys and Diabetes
I) Lifestyle & Diabetes
- Diabetes & Lifestyle - smoking, alcohol and illicit drugs
- Food Fact Sheet - Carbohydrates
- Food Fact Sheet - Glycaemic Index
- Food Fact Sheet - Healthy Eating
- Food Fact Sheet - T2DM
- Thrive Lifestyle Programme Information
J) Medication & Diabetes
K) Mental Health & Wellbeing & Diabetes
- Adjusting to living with diabetes
- Diabetes and anxiety
- Diabetes and depression
- Diabetes and eating problems
- Fear of hypos
- Worries about insulin
L) Patients on Insulin
M) Travel & Diabetes
N) Type 1 Diabetes Information and Illness
- T1DM what to do you when you are unwell
- Hypoglycaemic further information
- Hypoglycaemia Trend Patient information leaflet
O) Type 2 Diabetes Information and Illness
- T1DM what to do you when you are unwell
- T2 Diabetes and DKA
- Hypoglycaemic further information
- Hypoglycaemia Trend Patient information leaflet
- Diabetes and Illness
P) Pre-Diabetes
Q) Reducing your risk of diabetes
- Being active to reduce your risk of Type 2 diabetes
- Eating well to reduce your risk of Type 2 diabetes
R) Women's Health and Diabetes